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| hinge | |
| 1. n. Gond, charnière. | |
| 2. v. Équiper d'une charnière. | |
| 3. v. (Archéologie) En parlant de la taille des pierres, désigne la cassure de la pierre qui survient perpendiculairement à l'extrémité. | |
| The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core. | |
| 4. v. Dépendre de quelque chose. | |
| anglais > anglais | |
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| hinge | |
| 1. n. A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. |  |
| 2. n. A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve. | |
| 3. n. A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album. | |
| 4. n. A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend. | |
| This argument was the hinge on which the question turned. | |
| 5. n. (statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution. | |
| 6. n. One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south. | |
| 7. v. To attach by, or equip with a hinge. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive, with on or upon) To depend on something. | |
| 9. v. (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 | |
| The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core. | |
| 10. v. (obsolete) To bend. | |
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| charnière | |
| 1. n-f. hinge | |
| 2. n-f. joint (of a bone) | |
| 3. n-f. (figuratively) turning point (pivotal moment) | |
| 4. n-f. (philately) hinge | |
