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What does hinge mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hinge? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
  2. A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
  3. A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
  4. (statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
  5. One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
  2. (on) To depend on something.
  3. (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.
  4. (obsolete) To bend.
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