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Axis

A straight line about which a body or geometric object rotates or may be conceived to rotate.
Apr 06, 2022

Hinge

A hinge is a mechanical bearing that connects two solid objects, typically allowing only a limited angle of rotation between them. Two objects connected by an ideal hinge rotate relative to each other about a fixed axis of rotation: all other translations or rotations being prevented, and thus a hinge has one degree of freedom.
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Axis

An unlimited line, half-line, or line segment serving to orient a space or a geometric object, especially a line about which the object is symmetric.
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Hinge

A jointed or flexible device that allows the turning or pivoting of a part, such as a door or lid, on a stationary frame.
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Axis

A reference line from which distances or angles are measured in a coordinate system.
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Hinge

A similar structure or part, such as one that enables the valves of a bivalve mollusk to open and close.
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Axis

A center line to which parts of a structure or body may be referred.
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Hinge

A small folded paper rectangle gummed on one side, used especially to fasten stamps in an album.
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Axis

An imaginary line to which elements of a work of art, such as a picture, are referred for measurement or symmetry.
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Hinge

A point or circumstance on which subsequent events depend.
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Axis

The second cervical vertebra on which the head turns.
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Hinge

To attach by or equip with or as if with hinges or a hinge.
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Axis

Any of various central structures, such as the spinal column, or standard abstract lines used as a positional referent.
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Hinge

To consider or make (something) dependent on something else; predicate
"convenient and misleading fictions for hinging an argument" (Stephen Jay Gould).
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Axis

(Botany) The main stem or central part about which organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged.
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Hinge

To be contingent on a single factor; depend
This plan hinges on her approval.
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Axis

One of three mutually perpendicular lines that define the orientation of an aircraft, with one being along its direction of travel and the other two being perpendicular to the direction of travel.
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Hinge

A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
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Axis

A line through the optical center of a lens that is perpendicular to both its surfaces.
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Hinge

A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
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Axis

One of three or four imaginary lines used to define the faces of a crystal and the position of its atoms.
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Hinge

A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
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Axis

An alliance of powers, such as nations, to promote mutual interests and policies.
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Hinge

A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
This argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
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Axis

Axis The alliance of Germany and Italy in 1936, later including Japan and other nations, that opposed the Allies in World War II.
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Hinge

(statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
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Axis

(geometry) An imaginary line around which an object spins (an axis of rotation) or is symmetrically arranged (an axis of symmetry).
The Earth rotates once a day on its axis
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Hinge

One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
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Axis

(mathematics) A fixed one-dimensional figure, such as a line or arc, with an origin and orientation and such that its points are in one-to-one correspondence with a set of numbers; an axis forms part of the basis of a space or is used to position and locate data in a graph (a coordinate axis)
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Hinge

A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
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Axis

(skeleton) The second cervical vertebra of the spine
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Hinge

(transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
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Axis

(anatomy) An imaginary, visualized plane separating two morphologically similar parts of an organism
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Hinge

To depend on something.
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Axis

(psychiatry) A form of classification and descriptions of mental disorders or disabilities used in manuals such as the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
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Hinge

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.
The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core.
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Axis

(botany) The main stem or central part about which organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged
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Hinge

(obsolete) To bend.
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Axis

(military) An alliance or coalition.
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Hinge

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.
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Axis

A deer native to Asia, of species Axis axis.
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Hinge

The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on.
The gate self-opened wide,On golden hinges turning.
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Axis

The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).
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Hinge

That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
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Axis

A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged.
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Hinge

One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
When the moon is in the hinge at East.
Nor slept the winds . . . but rushed abroad.
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Axis

A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center.
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Hinge

To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.
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Axis

The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body.
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Hinge

To bend.
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Axis

The second vertebra of the neck, or vertebra dentata.
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Hinge

To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to depend chiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; - usually with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point.
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Axis

One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded.
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Hinge

A joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other
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Axis

The primary or secondary central line of any design.
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Hinge

A circumstance upon which subsequent events depend;
His absence is the hinge of our plan
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Axis

A straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions
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Hinge

Attach with a hinge
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Axis

The center around which something rotates
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Axis

The main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged
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Axis

In World War II the alliance of Germany and Italy in 1936 which later included Japan and other nations;
The Axis opposed the Allies in World War II
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Axis

A group of countries in special alliance
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Axis

The 2nd cervical vertebra; serves as a pivot for turning the head
Apr 06, 2022

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