socket

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Featuring illuminated eyes in the film, and with original wiring in the right socket, this particular C-3PO head boasts several unique features including a forehead antenna.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

Preserved in nearly perfect three-dimensional detail, the skeleton includes a skull with a huge eye socket and an elongated, sword-like snout.

From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026

He needed to get it onto a two-foot-long metal rod called a socket extension.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

She strongly recommends electronics are switched off at the wall socket every night before the last person in the house goes to bed.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025

But I’m not staring at the glass eye—I’m staring at the socket, where the eye was.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle