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A hinge is a mechanical bearing that connects two solid objects.

Hinge or hinges can also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Hinge, former name of the band Dry Kill Logic
• "Hinge I" and "Hinge II", tracks on If You Saw Thro' My Eyes album by Iain Matthews

Science and mathematics

• Hinge joint (ginglymus), a bone joint
• Hinge line of bivalve shells
• Hinge teeth of bivalve shells
• Ligament (bivalve) or hinge ligament of a bivalve shell
• Molecular hinge, a molecule that can be selectively switched from one configuration to another in a reversible fashion
• Hinge functions in multivariate statistics
• Hinge theorem in geometry
• Hinge decomposition of hypergraphs, used when studying constraint satisfaction problems

People

• See Hinge (surname)
• Hinge and Bracket, stage personae

Places

• Hinges, Pas-de-Calais, a place in France

Types of hinge

• Floating hinge, a type of hinge that enables one of the objects to move away from the other
• Geared continuous hinge, a type of continuous hinge
• Living hinge, a thin flexible hinge made from the same material as the two rigid pieces it connects
• Plastic hinge in structural engineering beam theory
• Stamp hinge in philately

Other uses

• Hinge (app), a dating app
• Hinge Studios in California
• Jonbar hinge in science-fiction criticism

See also

• Hing (disambiguation)
• Unhinged (disambiguation)
• Hinge loss in machine learning
• Hinge pearl, a type of imitation pearl
• Hinge-action, or break-action, in firearms
• Hell's Hinges, silent film
• The Crooked Hinge, novel
• Pressure the Hinges, album by Haste the Day
• Kinixys, genus of hinge-back tortoises

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