Wedge (disambiguation)

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A wedge is a triangular-shaped simple machine.

Wedge, The Wedge, or Wedges may also refer to:

Common meanings

Wedge (footwear), a type of shoe
Wedge (golf), a type of golf club

Culture

Fictional characters

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
Wedge, a recurring character in the Final Fantasy video game series; see Biggs and Wedge

Music

The Wedge (album), by the British band Pallas
"The Wedge" (song), by American band Phish, 1993
Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 548, a work by Johann Sebastian Bach sometimes called "The Wedge"
Wedge Records, a record label

Television

The Wedge (Australian TV series), a sketch show on Network Ten
The Wedge (Canadian TV series), a music show on MuchMusic

Publications

The Wedge (poetry collection), 1994 collection of poems by William Carlos Williams
Wedge: The Secret War Between the FBI and CIA, 1994 book by Mark Riebling

Linguistics

Wedge (phonetics), the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol ʌ
Caron, háček or wedge, a diacritic symbol

Mathematics

Wedge (geometry), a polyhedral solid
Wedge (symbol) ( $\land$ ), a symbol which is interpreted as logical conjunction ("and")
Wedge product, the exterior product of vectors
Wedge sum, an operation on topological spaces

People

Wedge (surname), a list of people with the surname
Nickname of Warren Grimm (1888–1919), American Legion Post Commander killed in the Centralia massacre

Places

United States

Wedge International Tower, in Houston, Texas
The Wedge (surfing), a surf spot in Newport Beach, California
Wedges Creek, Wisconsin
Wedge Plantation, South Carolina
Lowry Hill East, Minneapolis, a neighborhood nicknamed "the Wedge" in Minnesota
Wedge (border), a small area of Delaware that was disputed between Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware until 1921

Antarctica

Wedge Face, on the Shackleton Coast
Wedge Ridge, in Coats Land

Elsewhere

Wedge Island (disambiguation), various islands (also a settlement and a locality) in Australia and Canada
Wedge Mountain, in British Columbia, Canada
The Wedge (Alberta), a mountain in the Fisher Range of the Canadian Rockies

Geographical features

The Wedge (Alaska), a mountain near Anchorage
The Wedge (Montana), a mountain range
Wedge Peak (Alaska)
Wedge Pass

Food

Submarine sandwich
Potato wedges, a large cut of potatoes baked or fried and eaten as a side dish

Companies

Wedge Community Co-op, a grocery in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Wedge Group, a British galvanising company

Other uses

Flying wedge, a troop formation
The Wedge, the narrowest house in Britain, located on the island of Great Cumbrae
DOS Wedge, a piece of software for the Commodore 64 computer
TVR Wedges, a series of sports cars
The wedge, a weather phenomenon resulting from cold air damming
Wedge issue or wedge politics, divisive political or social issue
Wedge strategy, a creationist political and social action plan