Wedge (disambiguation)
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- For a disambiguation of "The Wedge", see 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.
- Potato wedges, large chunks of often unpeeled fried potatoes
- Wedge (sandwich), a name for a hero sandwich, submarine sandwich, or hoagie in Westchester and Putnam Counties, New York, USA.[1]
- A range of sports cars from British manufacturers TVR.
- a type of sandal
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.
- Wedge sum, in mathematics a "one-point union" of a family of topological spaces.
- Wedge issue, 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.
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) is 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).