joint hinge

1. 1.

   a hinge with two long straps; one strap is fastened to the surface of a moving part (e.g., a door or lid) and the other is fastened to the adjacent stationary frame

   Synonymsstrap hinge

   Broaderhinge

Questions about joint hinge

What does joint hinge mean?

joint hinge means "a hinge with two long straps; one strap is fastened to the surface of a moving part (e.g., a door or lid) and the other is fastened to the adjacent stationary frame".

What is another word for joint hinge?

Close synonyms include strap 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 joint hinge a common word?

joint hinge 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.