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Edge (or variations) may refer to:
[edit] People
- The Edge, an Irish musician and member of the rock band U2
- Adam Copeland, a Canadian professional wrestler whose ring name is "Edge"
- Arabella Edge, a writer and novelist
- Carey May Edge, an Irish former long-distance runner
- Claude "Butch" Lee Edge (born 1956), an American professional baseball player
- David Edge (born 1954), a British former long-distance runner
- Geoffrey Edge (born 1943), a British politician
- Graeme Edge (born 1941), an English musician
- John T. Edge, an American food writer and commentator
- Lewis Edge (born 1987), an English professional footballer
- Selwyn Edge (1868-1940), an Australian businessman and racing car driver
- Walter Evans Edge (1873-1956), an American politician
- Edgerrin James, an American football player nicknamed "Edge" or "The Edge"
[edit] Locations
[edit] England
Edge is a colloquial adjective to describe escarpments in England.
- Edge, Cheshire, a small village and civil parish in the City of Chester district of Cheshire, England
- Edge Hill, Warwickshire, an escarpment and hamlet in the county of Warwickshire, England, and site of the first battle of the English Civil War
- Alderley Edge, a village and civil parish in Cheshire
- Birchen Edge, a rock face in the Peak District, United Kingdom
- Birds Edge, a small village in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Blackstone Edge, an area of moorland along the Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire county boundary
- Brown Edge is a village and civil parish in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire
- Fremington Edge, a wall of crags and scree slopes in the Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Gardom's Edge, located near Baslow in Derbyshire
- Kinver Edge, a high heath and woodland escarpment in Staffordshire
- Moorside Edge, in West Yorkshire
- Snods Edge, a small hamlet in South Northumberland
- Wenlock Edge, a limestone escarpment near Much Wenlock, Shropshire
[edit] Science and technology
- Edge case, a problem or situation that occurs only at an extreme (maximum or minimum) operating parameter
- Edge of chaos, a phrase used to refer to a metaphor that some physical, biological, economic and social systems operate in a region between order and complete randomness or chaos, where the complexity is maximal
- Edge connector, the portion of a printed circuit board consisting of traces leading to the edge of the board that are intended to plug into an edge connector socket
- Edge detection, in image processing and computer vision, locating points in a digital image where the luminous intensity changes sharply
- Edge device, an access device that provide entry points into enterprise or service provider core computer networks
- Edge effect, the effect of the juxtaposition of contrasting environments on an ecosystem
- Edge enhancement, a digital image processing filter that improves the apparent sharpness of an image or video
- Edge Foundation, an organization of science and technology intellectuals
- Edge-of-the-wedge theorem, in quantum field theory
- Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE), a digital mobile phone technology
- Bleeding edge, a description of technology that is so new (and thus, presumably, not perfected) that the user is required to risk reductions in stability and productivity in order to use it
- Clock edge, in electronics, a transition in a clock signal from either low to high (0 to 1) or high to low (1 to 0)
- Red edge, the region of rapid change in reflectance of chlorophyll in the near infrared range
- Silhouette edge, in computer graphics, is the collection of points on a 3D body projected onto a 2D plane (display plane) whose outwards surface normal is perpendicular to the view vector
[edit] Mathematics
[edit] Aviation
[edit] Publications
- Edge Radio, a radio station in Hobart, Tasmania
- The Edge (radio station), a New Zealand radio network
- The Edge Radio Lucena, a radio station in the Philippines.
- CFNY-FM, a radio station in Toronto, Ontario
- KDGE-FM, a radio station in Dallas, Texas
- KEDJ, a radio station in Phoenix, Arizona
- WEDG, a radio station in Buffalo, New York
[edit] Fictional characters
- Edge Act, U.S. legislation which allows national banks to engage in international banking through federally chartered subsidiaries
- Edge Act Corporation, a corporation chartered by the Federal Reserve of the United States under the above
- Edge Church, an Assemblies of God megachurch in Adelaide, South Australia
- Edge city, an American term for a relatively new concentration of business, shopping and entertainment outside a traditional urban area, in what had recently been a residential suburb or semi-rural community
- Edge jointing, the process of making the edge of a wooden board straight and true in preparation for edge joining
- Edge-to-edge tiling, a type of tiling
- Edge pull, in figure skating, a skill that allows the skater to gain speed while skating on one foot by rocking between inside and outside edges
- Edge Wireless, an American mobile phone provider
- EDGES with Mal Fletcher, a documentary TV series presenting evangelical Christian views on social issues
- Ford Edge, a midsize crossover vehicle
- Straight edge, a subculture that is closely associated with hardcore punk music
- West Michigan Edge, an American soccer team
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