Usually means: Pivoting or bending around a point.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. hinging: Merriam-Webster
  2. hinging: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hinging: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hinging: Vocabulary.com
  5. Hinging, hinging: Wordnik
  6. hinging: Wiktionary
  7. Hinging, hinging: Dictionary.com
  8. Hinging: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Hinging: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. hinging: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. hinging: FreeDictionary.org
  12. hinging: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. hinging: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hinging: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hinging: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hinging: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hinge as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Hinge)

noun:  A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
noun:  A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
noun:  A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
noun:  A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
noun:  (statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
noun:  One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
noun:  A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
noun:  In polyamory, a person connected emotionally or sexually to two others who are not connected to each other.
noun:  (dialectal) To be in poor health; to be out of sorts.
verb:  (transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
verb:  (intransitive, with on or upon) 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.
verb:  (obsolete) To bend.
verb:  To move or already be positioned in such a fashion that it presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
noun:  A surname.
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