flexible joint

Questions about flexible joint

What does flexible joint mean?

flexible joint means "a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other".

What is another word for flexible joint?

Close synonyms include hinge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flexible joint a common word?

flexible joint is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.