hinge

IPA: hˈɪndʒ

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.
(statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
In polyamory, a person connected emotionally or sexually to two others who are not connected to each other.
A surname.

(transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
(intransitive, with on or upon) 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.
(obsolete) To bend.
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.

Examples of "hinge" in Sentences

The canopy hinges open to the right.
The housing is not attached to the hinge.
The panel is pivotally hinged to one of the jambs.
The deck unseated at the hinge and failed in shear.
The ailerons are hinged directly behind the aft spar.
A hinged lid in the urn covers the opening to the shaft.
One of the swivel blocks is hinged to the vehicle frame.
An example of instantaneous axis of rotation is the hinge of a door.
A hinge is secured to the jamb of a door frame and to a door in the frame.
The alarm had been given, and the heavy oaken door, swinging upon its well oiled hinges, closed in their faces.