Definition of "hinge"
- noun
A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
A point in time, on which subsequent events depend.
The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
- verb
To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
To depend on something.
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.
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