hinge
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See also hingê
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hinge (plural hinges)
- A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. See also pintel.
- 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.
- (statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
[edit] Synonyms
- (statistics): quartile
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[edit] Translations
device for the pivoting of a door
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philately: paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps — see stamp hinge
point in time, on which subsequent events depend
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statistics: median of upper or lower half of a batch — see quartile
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[edit] Verb
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to hinge (third-person singular simple present hinges, present participle hinging, simple past and past participle hinged)
- (transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
- (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.
- The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core.
[edit] Translations
to attach by a hinge
to depend on something
[edit] Anagrams
- Anagrams of eghin
- neigh
[edit] German
[edit] Verb form
hinge
- first- and third-person singular subjunctive past of hängen
