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cav·i·ty

(kăv′ĭ-tē)

n. pl. cav·i·ties

1. A hollow; a hole.

2. A hollow area within the body: a sinus cavity.

3. A pitted area in a tooth caused by caries.

[French cavité, from Late Latin cavitās, from Latin cavus, hollow; see keuə- in Indo-European roots.]

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cavity

(ˈkævɪtɪ)

n, pl -ties

1. a hollow space; hole

2. (Dentistry) dentistry a soft decayed area on a tooth. See caries

3. (Anatomy) any empty or hollow space within the body: the oral cavity.

4. (Electronics) electronics See cavity resonator

[C16: from French cavité, from Late Latin cavitās, from Latin cavus hollow]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

cav•i•ty

(ˈkæv ɪ ti)

n., pl. -ties.

1. any hollow place; hollow.

2. a hollow space within the body, an organ, a bone, etc.

3. a hollow space or a pit in a tooth, commonly produced by decay.

[1535–45; < Middle French cavite < Late Latin cavitās hollowness < Latin cav(us) hollow]

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Noun	1.	cavity - a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body" pit trou-de-loup - a sloping pit with a stake in the middle used as an obstacle to the enemy barbecue pit - a pit where wood or charcoal is burned to make a bed of hot coals suitable for barbecuing meat borrow pit - a pit created to provide earth that can be used as fill at another site divot - (golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke; "it was a good drive but the ball ended up in a divot" fire pit - a pit whose floor is incandescent lava; "the fire pit of the crater" hollow, hole - a depression hollowed out of solid matter quicksand - a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down sandpit - a large pit in sandy ground from which sand is dug sawpit - a pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed by two men with a long two-handed saw tar pit - a natural accumulation of bitumens at the surface of the earth; often acts as a trap for animals whose bones are thus preserved
	2.	cavity - space that is surrounded by something enclosed space space - an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things); "the architect left space in front of the building"; "they stopped at an open space in the jungle"; "the space between his teeth" hollow - a cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks" sac, sack, pocket, pouch - an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air"
	3.	cavity - soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth caries, dental caries, tooth decay decay - the process of gradually becoming inferior
	4.	cavity - (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body bodily cavity, cavum blastocele, blastocoel, blastocoele, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity - the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula archenteron - central cavity of the gastrula; becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity body, organic structure, physical structure - the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being); "he felt as if his whole body were on fire" anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure - a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; "he has good bone structure" sinus - any of various air-filled cavities especially in the bones of the skull locule, loculus - a small cavity or space within an organ or in a plant or animal lumen - a cavity or passage in a tubular organ; "the lumen of the intestine" socket - a bony hollow into which a structure fits pulp cavity - the central cavity of a tooth containing the pulp (including the root canal) cranial orbit, eye socket, orbital cavity, orbit - the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball buccal cavity - the cavity between the jaws and the cheeks antrum - a natural cavity or hollow in a bone cloaca - (zoology) the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not mammals) at the end of the digestive tract into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open vestibule - any of various bodily cavities leading to another cavity (as of the ear or vagina) mediastinum - the part of the thoracic cavity between the lungs that contains the heart and aorta and esophagus and trachea and thymus middle ear, tympanic cavity, tympanum - the main cavity of the ear; between the eardrum and the inner ear pleural cavity - the cavity in the thorax that contains the lungs and heart chamber - an enclosed volume in the body; "the chambers of his heart were healthy" cranial cavity, intracranial cavity - the cavity enclosed by the cranium amniotic cavity - the fluid-filled cavity that surrounds the developing embryo greater peritoneal sac, peritoneal cavity - the interior of the peritoneum; a potential space between layers of the peritoneum bursa omentalis, lesser peritoneal cavity, omental bursa - an isolated part of the peritoneal cavity that is dorsal to the stomach pericardial cavity, pericardial space - the space between the layers of the pericardium that contains fluid that lubricates the membrane surfaces and allows easy heart movement vacuole - a tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell ventricle - one of four connected cavities in the brain; is continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord and contains cerebrospinal fluid sac - a structure resembling a bag in an animal uterine cavity - the space inside the uterus between the cervical canal and the Fallopian tubes nasal cavity - either of the two cavities lying between the floor of the cranium and the roof of the mouth and extending from the face to the pharynx nasopharynx - cavity forming the upper part of the pharynx oropharynx - cavity formed by the pharynx at the back of the mouth laryngopharynx - the lower part of the pharynx blind gut, caecum, cecum - the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens; "the appendix is an offshoot of the cecum" tubular cavity - a cavity having the shape of a tube armpit, axilla, axillary cavity, axillary fossa - the hollow under the arm where it is joined to the shoulder; "they were up to their armpits in water" chest cavity, thoracic cavity - the cavity in the vertebrate body enclosed by the ribs between the diaphragm and the neck and containing the lungs and heart abdominal cavity, abdomen - the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm renal pelvis, pelvis - a structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter pelvic cavity - the space bounded by the bones of the pelvis and containing the pelvic viscera celom, celoma, coelom - a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity anatomy, general anatomy - the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals fossa, pit - a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)

cavity

noun hollow, hole, gap, pit, dent, crater The sinuses are four sets of air-filled cavities leading directly from the nose.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

cavity

noun

A space in an otherwise solid mass:

hole, hollow, pocket, vacuity, void.

Translations

فَجْوَه، تَجْويف

dutina

hul

hola

skylė

caurumsdobums

hull i tann hulrom

boşluk oyuk

洞

cavity

[ˈkævɪtɪ]

A. N → cavidad f; (in tooth) → caries f inv
nasal cavities → fosas fpl nasales

B. CPD cavity wall N → pared f con cámara de aire, doble pared f
cavity wall insulation N → aislamiento m con cámara de aire

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cavity

[ˈkævɪti] n

(= hole, gap) → cavité f

(in tooth) → carie fcavity wall n (mainly British) → mur m creuxcavity wall insulation n → isolation f des murs creux

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

cavity

n → Hohlraum m, → Höhlung f; (in tooth) → Loch nt; nasal/chest cavity (Anat) → Nasen-/Brusthöhle f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

cavity

[ˈkævɪtɪ] n → cavità

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

cavity

(ˈkӕvəti) – plural ˈcavities – noun

a hollow place; a hole. The dentist said she had three cavities in her teeth; The thief hid the necklace in a cavity in the wall.

cav·i·ty

n. cavidad, lugar hueco;

abdominal ___ → ___ abdominal;

cranial ___ → ___ craneal;

pelvic ___ → ___ pelviana;

thoracic ___ → ___ torácica.

cavity

n (pl -ties) cavidad f; (dent) hueco producido por caries; You have a cavity..Tiene un diente con caries..Tiene una carie (fam)..Tiene un diente picado (fam)…You have cavities..Tiene caries; [Note: caries is a mass noun like the English word decay, therefore una carie is grammatically incorrect though commonly used.]

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For, after these things, it is not necessary for me to say anything more with a view to explain the motion of the heart, except that when its cavities are not full of blood, into these the blood of necessity flows, - - from the hollow vein into the right, and from the venous artery into the left; because these two vessels are always full of blood, and their orifices, which are turned towards the heart, cannot then be closed.

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Of these different rifts some were perfectly straight, as if cut by a line; others were slightly curved, though still keeping their borders parallel; some crossed each other, some cut through craters; here they wound through ordinary cavities, such as Posidonius or Petavius; there they wound through the seas, such as the "Sea of Serenity."

After all, whether the atmosphere has taken refuge at the bottom of cavities, in the midst of the circles, or even on the opposite face of the moon, we cannot decide."

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The superstitious Abyssins imagine that the cavities of the mountains are inhabited by evil spirits which appear in different shapes, calling those that pass by their names as in a familiar acquaintance, who, if they go to them, are never seen afterwards.

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The wind buried itself in the lower cavities of the balloon and shook the appendage by which the dilating-pipes entered the main apparatus.

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"The commencement of the tuberculous process we are not, as you are aware, able to define; till there are cavities, there is nothing definite.

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They stacked up the cakes thus in the open air in a pile thirty-five feet high on one side and six or seven rods square, putting hay between the outside layers to exclude the air; for when the wind, though never so cold, finds a passage through, it will wear large cavities, leaving slight supports or studs only here and there, and finally topple it down.

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between toothaches and cavities. Privacy, therefore does not by itself make a datum unamenable to scientific treatment.

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The master gave her none, for one of his speculations was in jeopardy, and his mind was so occupied that he hardly saw the children when he looked at them, and all Roxy had to do was to get them both into a gale of laughter when he came about; then their faces were mainly cavities exposing gums, and he was gone again before the spasm passed and the little creatures resumed a human aspect.

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Jammes yelled these words in a tone of unspeakable terror; and her finger pointed, among the crowd of dandies, to a face so pallid, so lugubrious and so ugly, with two such deep black cavities under the straddling eyebrows, that the death's head in question immediately scored a huge success.

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Up to now, the largest model in the series was the PF24-8B, with 12 or 24 preform cavities and four or eight blowing cavities--the blowing section that operates three times per injection molding cycle.

Larger '1.5-Step' PET Machine

It belongs to open cavities for which typically 1 [less than or equal to] L/D [less than or equal to] 10 [6].

Suppression of supersonic cavity oscillations using pulsed upstream mass injection

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