cavity

名词 n.
中文释义
美 [ˈkʰæv.ɨɾ.i]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hole or hollow depression in a solid object.; A hollow area within the body.
  2. A hole or hollow depression in a solid object.; The female part of a mold: the depression itself or (metonymically) the half of the mold that contains it.
  3. A small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries; often also a soft area adjacent to the hole also affected by caries.
    — Jim got two cavities filled at the dentist's office yesterday.

词形变化

cavities plural

词汇关系

衍生词
anticavity body cavity search cavicapture cavitand cavitation cavitied cavityless cavity magnetron cavity QED cavity quantum electrodynamics cavity resonator cavity search cavity wall centre of cavity cotyloid cavity gastrovascular cavity intracavity intracavital microwave resonant cavity thruster mouth cavity multicavity pelvic cavity pulp cavity subcavity
相关词
cave cavitary cavitate concave excavate excavation excavator

词源

From Middle French cavité or Late Latin cavitās, from cav(i) (“hollow, excavated, concave”) + -tās (“-ity”, nominal suffix). First attested in the Mid-16th c.
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