Cavity

Noun

 * 1) A hole or hollow depression.
 * 2) A hollow area within the body (such as the sinuses).
 * 3)  A soft area in a decayed tooth.

Adjectives for Cavity
dark; dungeon-like; hideous; conical.

Verbs for Cavity
cap—; dilate—; drain—; drill—; empty—; fill—; grind—; irrigate—; line—; obliterate—; tap—; treat—; —contains; —weakens.

Synonyms for Cavity
hollow, hole, depression, cave, excavation, concavity, opening.

Antonyms for Cavity
mound, hill, prominence, projection, protuberance, elevation, swelling, convexity.

Derived terms

 * buccal cavity
 * cavity back
 * cavity batten
 * cavity coupling
 * cavity fill
 * cavity filter
 * cavity impedence
 * cavity magnetron
 * cavity oscillator
 * cavity radiator
 * cavity resonance
 * cavity tray
 * cavity tuning
 * cavity vent
 * cavity wall
 * oral cavity

Related terms

 * cave
 * concave
 * excavate
 * excavation
 * excavator

Thesaurus
hole, hollow, hollow shell, incision, inlet, interval, joint, kloof, lacuna, laying open, leak, manger, moat, notch, nullah, opening, opening up, orifice, outlet, pass, passage, passageway, pew, pit, pocket, pore, punch bowl, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, scoop, seam, shaft, shell, sink, sinus, slit, slot, socket, space, split, stall, stoma, throwing open, trench, trough, uncorking, unstopping, vacuity, valley, vault, void, vug, wadi, well, yawn, yawning abyss, abysm, abyss, alveolation, alveolus, antrum, aperture, armpit, arroyo, basin, booth, bowl, box, box canyon, breach, break, broaching, canyon, cell, cellule, chamber, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, clearing, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, compartment, concave, concavity, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crater, crevasse, crevice, crib, crypt, cup, cut, cwm, deep, defile, dell, depression, depth, dike, dip, disclosure, ditch, donga, draw, enclosed space, excavation, fault, fenestra, fissure, fistula, flaw, flume, fold, follicle, fontanel, foramen, fracture, funnel chest, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gat, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hiatus, hold,

Etymology
From as if *undefined: < cavus:.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: дупка, вдлъбнатина
 * Czech:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Latvian: dobums
 * Polish: wydrążenie, dziura
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük: kev


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: кухина
 * Czech:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Latvian: dobums
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük: kevil


 * Bulgarian: кариес
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 虫歯 (mushiba) invariant


 * Polish: ubytek
 * Spanish: caries invariant
 * Swedish:, tandröta,