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