Usually means: Joint allowing universal angular movement.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word ball-and-socket joint:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. ball-and-socket joint: Merriam-Webster
  2. ball-and-socket joint: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ball-and-socket joint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ball-and-socket joint, ball-and-socket joint: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ball-and-socket joint: Vocabulary.com
  6. ball-and-socket joint: Wiktionary
  7. ball-and-socket joint: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. ball-and-socket joint: Dictionary.com
  9. Ball-and-socket joint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. ball-and-socket joint: Rhymezone
  11. ball-and-socket joint: FreeDictionary.org
  12. ball-and-socket joint: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. ball-and-socket joint: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. ball-and-socket joint: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ball-and-socket joint: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ball-and-socket joint: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. ball-and-socket joint: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ball-and-socket joint, Joint, ball-and-socket: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Ball-and-socket joint: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. ball-and-socket joint: Medical dictionary
  7. Ball-and-socket joint, Joint, ball-and-socket: Drug Medical Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See ball-and-socket_joints as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ball-and-socket joint)

noun:  A joint in which one segment has a rounded end and the next segment has a bowl-shaped end, with the rounded end being fitted into the bowl shape, allowing the first segment to move around an indefinite number of axes which have one common center. Examples include the human shoulder joint and the balljoints of some automotive suspensions.

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