hinge

About 2.13 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
2. noun A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
3. noun A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
4. noun 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. noun The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
6. noun One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
7. noun A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
8. noun In polyamory, a person connected emotionally or sexually to two others who are not connected to each other.

Similar words

flexible joint key clevis linchpin pivot swivel bridge juncture crossroads landmark

Often followed by

on of upon line and is joint region at

Word family

hinge line hinged hinges hinging