charneira
Portuguese
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- Hyphenation: char‧nei‧ra
Noun
editcharneira f (plural charneiras)
- hinge (device for the pivoting of a door)
- (zoology) part where the valves or bivalve mollusks unite
- extremity that, when folded and sewn, holds a buckle
- (figuratively) person or thing uniting different parts or serving as the union of two different groups or worlds
- (geology) line uniting points of maximum curvature of a fold
- small paper strip that philatelists use to fix the postage stamp on the album
- (anatomy) hinge joint; ginglymus (joint where motion is restricted to one plane)