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Word: hinge (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. See also pintel.
  • A point in time, on which subsequent events depend.
  • A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
  • statistics The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.

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Verb:

  • intransitive To depend on something.
  • transitive 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.
  • transitive To attach by, or equip with a hinge.

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