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It is a term used to refer to places that you plug things into your mother board i.e.; CPU, memory, add on cards etc. Additionally in a different context it also represents a single connection between two network applications.

[edit: synonym=port]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_socket Internet socket (or commonly, a network socket or socket) is the endpoint of bidirectional communication flow across an internet Protocol-based computer network, such as the Internet

A socket is one end-point of a two-way communication link between two programs running on the network.

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