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Socket: A socket represents a single connection between two network applications.

These two applications nominally run on different computers, but sockets can also be used
for interprocess communication on a single computer. Applications can create multiple
sockets for communicating with each other. Sockets are bidirectional, meaning that either
side of

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ordering, or data integrity. Thus, UDP provides an unreliable service and datagrams may arrive out of
order, appear duplicated, or go missing without notice. UDP assumes that error checking and correction
is either not necessary or performed in the application, avoiding the overhead of such processing at the
network interface level

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