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▸ 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.
▸ 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.
Similar:
flexible joint,
leaf valve,
turn button,
revolving door,
swing door,
swivel,
scissor door,
pivoting,
roller shutter,
toggle bolt,
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Types:
door hinge,
butt hinge,
piano hinge,
strap hinge,
T-hinge,
barrel hinge,
gate hinge,
parliament hinge,
ball-bearing hinge,
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