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cavity meaning

EN[ˈkævɪti] [ˈkʰævɪɾi]
WCavity
  • A cavity is a hollow in an object. It may refer to:
  • Cavity or dental caries, damage to the structure of a tooth
  • Body cavity, a fluid filled space in many animals where organs typically develop
  • Cavity (heat source), the regions formed between adjacent fins to extract heat from a variety of heat generating bodies to a heat sink
  • Cavity wall, a wall consisting of two skins with a cavity
  • Cavity (band), a sludge metal band from Miami, Florida
  • Cavity method, a mathematical method to solve some mean field type of models

    Definition of cavity in English Dictionary

  • NounPLcavitiesSUF-ity
    1. A hole or hollow depression.
      1. A hollow area within the body (such as the sinuses).
        1. (dentistry) A soft area in a decayed tooth.
        2. More Examples
          1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
            • The gastric cavity of the medusae-bearing reproductive polyp lacks the radially symmetric intertaeniolar stripes of the feeding polyp (Fig 18D ).
            • While pyometra presents an infected purulent fluid, mucometra is characterized by the presence of a sterile seromucous fluid within the uterine cavity [1 ].
            • Untouched third molars were extracted and decoronated and a cavity was made with a homemade mold as demonstrated in Figure 1 .
          2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
            • The dentist aimed the X-ray tube at my mouth to find the cavity.
        • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
          1. Nouns
            • Countable nouns
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          1. en cavityless
          2. en cavity wall
          3. en cavity walls
          4. en cavity resonator
          5. en cavity quantum electrodynamics
          Source: Wiktionary

          Meaning of cavity for the defined word.

          Grammatically, this word "cavity" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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