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What is a ball-and-socket joint?

What is a ball-and-socket joint? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. 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.
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A leveling head or ball-and-socket joint on the top of the tripod will be found of material aid in leveling the instrument.
It is a bath that can be rocked, or inclined in any direction, for its center rests upon a ball-and-socket joint.
The hip joint is a ball-and-socket joint because the spherical head of the femur moves inside the cup-shaped acetabulum.
This ball-and-socket joint allows your arms to move in practically any direction you want, be it overhead, sideways, forward, back, or any direction in between.
Like its cousin the Hispaniolan solenodon, whose snout sits on a ball-and-socket joint, it is an evolutionary curiosity.
Hollows are very different in shape and size, so each camera was attached to a ball-and-socket joint to allow us to adjust the orientation of cameras inside the hollow.

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