Definitions
1.nounA jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
2.nounA naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
3.nounA stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
4.nounA principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend."This argument was the hinge on which the question turned."
5.nounThe median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
6.nounOne of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
7.verbTo attach by, or equip with a hinge.
8.verb(with on or upon) To depend on something.
9.verbThe 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."
10.verbTo bend.