hinge
- Noun. A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. See also pintel.
- Noun. A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
- Noun. A point in time, on which subsequent events depend.
- Noun. (statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
- Verb. (transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
- Verb. (intransitive) To depend on something.
- Verb. (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.
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