Wedge

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See also: The Wedge

The term wedge can refer to any of the following things:

Concrete objects:

  • Wedge (mechanical device), a simple machine used to separate two objects, or portions of objects, through the application of force
  • Wedge (golf), a specialized type of club used at short ranges
  • A foldback (sound engineering) wedge, or monitor wedge, used in bathtubs
  • Potato wedges, large chunks of often unpeeled fried potatoes
  • A name for a submarine sandwich in Westchester and Putnam Counties, New York, USA & Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
  • A range of sports cars from British manufacturers TVR

Natural phenomena:

Abstract concepts:

  • Wedge (geometry), a polyhedral solid defined by two triangles and three trapezoid faces
  • Wedge product, a mathematical term related to the exterior algebra (or the Grassmann algebra) of a vector
  • Wedge sum, in mathematics, a "one-point union" of a family of topological spaces
  • Wedge issue, in politics, a divisive issue used to split the support base of an opposing political group
  • Wedge strategy, a Creationist political action plan
  • In phonetics, a name for the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol, ʌ, representing the open-mid back unrounded vowel
  • Stabilization Wedge Game, in climatology, a concept developed to demonstrate that global warming is a problem which can be solved by implementing today's technologies to reduce CO2 emissions

Organisations:

  • Wedge Card, a social enterprise started by the founder of The Big Issue, John Bird, to promote local business, shops and communities.
  • Wedge Community Co-op, a cooperative grocery in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
  • Wedge Records, a record label

People and characters:

  • Wedge (Transformers), an Autobot, leader of the Build Team in the "Transformers: Robots in Disguise" toy line
  • A poker champion
  • Wedge Antilles, a fictional character in the Star Wars films.
  • A recurring character in the Final Fantasy video game series: see Biggs and Wedge