The difference between Hinge and Quartile

When used as nouns, hinge means a jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc, whereas quartile means any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.

Hinge is also verb with the meaning: to attach by, or equip with a hinge.

check bellow for the other definitions of Hinge and Quartile

  1. Hinge as a noun:

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

  2. Hinge as a noun:

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

  3. Hinge as a noun:

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

  4. Hinge as a noun:

    A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.

    Examples:

    "This argument was the hinge on which the question turned."

  5. Hinge as a noun (statistics):

    The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.

  6. Hinge as a noun:

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

  1. Hinge as a verb (transitive):

    To attach by, or equip with a hinge.

  2. Hinge as a verb (intransitive, with {{m, on):

    or }} To depend on something.

  3. Hinge as a verb (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 end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.

    Examples:

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

  4. Hinge as a verb (obsolete):

    To bend.

  1. Quartile as a noun (statistics):

    Any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.

  2. Quartile as a noun (statistics):

    Any one of the four groups so divided.

    Examples:

    "This school is ranked in the first quartile."

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