Wedge
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- See also: The Wedge
The term wedge can refer to any of the following things:
Physical 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
- Wedge (shoes), A type of shoe.
- Wedge (hat) A type of hat used by some military orginizations
- 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
Places:
- Wedge Island (disambiguation)
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
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, named for the operator symbol ∧ used
- 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
- Eric Wedge, manager of the Cleveland Indians
See also
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