Wedge

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Wedge or Wedges may refer to:

Abstract concepts:

• Wedge pattern, technical analysis financial chart patterns
• 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
• 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

Linguistics:

• Caron or háček, a diacritic symbol
• In phonetics, a name for the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol ʌ, representing the open-mid back unrounded vowel

Mathematics:

• Triangular prism, a parallel triangle wedge
• Wedge (geometry), a polyhedral solid defined by two triangles and three trapezoid faces
• Wedge (symbol) (), a symbol which is interpreted as logical conjunction ("and")
• Wedge product, a term in exterior algebra, named for the "∧" logical operator symbol
• Wedge sum, a "one-point union" of a family of topological spaces

Military:

• Flying wedge, a troop formation
• Side cap, a type of hat used by some military organizations
• Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA, a book by Mark Riebling

Natural phenomena:

• Wedge tornado, a tornado similar in shape to the mechanical device
• A form of cold air damming, a weather phenomenon
• Wedge pressure, the blood pressure measured in a pulmonary artery

Organisations:

• Wedge Community Co-op, a cooperative grocery in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
• Wedge Records, a record label
• Wedge Group, a British galvanising Company

People and characters:

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

Physical objects:

• A foldback (sound engineering) wedge, or monitor wedge
• A name for a submarine sandwich in Westchester & Putnam Counties, New York, and in Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
• A range of sports cars from British manufacturer TVR
• Potato wedges
• Wedge base, an electrical fitting for small light bulbs
• Wedge (footwear), a specific form of shoe sole construction
• Wedge (golf), a specialized type of club used at short ranges
• Wedge (mechanical device), a simple machine used to separate two objects, or portions of objects, through the application of force
• Wedge prism, a thin triangular prism in optics
• Wheel chock, a wedge or at least partially wedge-shaped object used to arrest wheels and prevent their movement

Places:

• Wedge Island (disambiguation)
• Wedge (border), a small tract of land along the borders of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania
• Wedges Creek, a stream in Wisconsin

See also

• The Wedge (disambiguation)
• Wedgie