HINGE
/ΛhΙͺndΚ/
9
Scrabble
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WWF
H(4) I(1) N(1) G(2) E(1)
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Definition
/ΛhΙͺndΚ/
noun
- A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
- A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
- A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
- A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.“This argument was the hinge on which the question turned.”
- The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
verb
- To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
- (with on or upon) To depend on something.
- 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.”
- To bend.
Source: Wiktionary
