What does ball-and-socket mean?
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ball-and-sock·et
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Dictionary of Nautical Terms
ball-and-socket
A clever adaptation to give astronomical or surveying instruments full play and motion every way by a brass ball fitted into a spherical cell, and usually carried by an endless screw.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of ball-and-socket in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of ball-and-socket in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of ball-and-socket in a Sentence
Dinosaurs are like modern-day birds, crocodiles and lizards in that they inherited particular joints in their skulls from fish ball and socket joints, much like peoples hip joints that seem to lend themselves, but not always, to movement like in snakes, when you put a lot of force on things, theresa tradeoff between movement and stability. Birds and lizards have more movement but less stability.
Once we got him on the kayak we could really see what happened, and his whole clavicle's ripped open ; you could see the ball and socket joint and everything.
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