HINGE

Hinge

A hinge is a type of bearing that connects two solid objects, typically allowing only a limited angle of rotation between them. Two objects connected by an ideal hinge rotate relative to each other about a fixed axis of rotation. Hinges may be made of flexible material or of moving components. In biology, many joints function as hinges.

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hinge

Noun

  1. A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. See also pintel.
  2. A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
  3. A point in time, on which subsequent events depend.
  4. The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
  5. One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.

Verb

  1. To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
  2. To depend on something.
  3. archaeology The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
    The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core.
  4. To bend.


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