Socket
<networking> The Berkeley Unix mechansim for creating a virtual connection between processes.
Sockets interface Unix's standard I/O with its network communication facilities.
They can be of two types, stream (bi-directional) or datagram (fixed length destination-addressed messages). The socket library function socket() creates a communications end-point or socket and returns a file descriptor with which to access that socket.
The socket has associated with it a socket address, consisting of a port number and the local host's network address.
Unix manual page: socket(2).
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