Wedge
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Wedge, The Wedge, or Wedges may refer to:
Art and entertainment
- The Wedge (Australian TV series)
- The Wedge (Canadian TV series)
- The Wedge (poetry), a collection by William Carlos Williams
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
- Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 548, a work by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Wedge Records, a record label
Linguistics
- Wedge (phonetics), the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol ʌ, representing the open-mid back unrounded vowel
- Caron or háček, a diacritic symbol
Mathematics
- 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
- Triangular prism
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
People
- Cathy Wedge (born 1950), Canadian equestrian
- Charles Wedge, Australian explorer
- Charles Wedge of Shudy Camps (1746–1842), English farmer and surveyor
- Chris Wedge (born 1957), American voice actor, producer and director
- Don Wedge (1929–2012), American football official
- Edward Davy Wedge (1777–1852), Tasmanian settler
- Edwin Wedge (1911–1994), American speed skater
- Eric Wedge (born 1968), American baseball manager
- Frederick Wedge (1880–1953), American boxer
- Harry Wedge (1958–2012), Australian Aboriginal artist
- James Wedge (born 1939), British fashion designer and photographer
- John Wedge (1744–1816), English agriculturalist
- John Helder Wedge (1793–1872), Tasmanian explorer and politician
- Stuart Wedge (born 1985), English cricketer
- Thomas Wedge (rugby union) (1881–1964), British rugby union player
- Thomas Wedge of Chester (1760–1854), English agriculturalist
- Warren O. (Wedge) Grimm (1888–1919), American Legion Post Commander killed in the Centralia massacre
Places
- Wedge (border), a small tract of land along the borders of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania
- The Wedge (Alberta), a mountain in Canada
- The Wedge (Montana), a mountain range in the United States
- The Wedge (surfing), a surf spot in Newport Beach, California, United States
- Wedges Creek, a stream in Wisconsin
- Wedge Face, on the Shackleton Coast, Antarctica
- Wedge Island (disambiguation)
- Wedge Mountain, in British Columbia, Canada
- Wedge Peak (Alaska)
- Wedge Plantation, in South Carolina, United States
- Wedge Ridge, in Coats Land, Antarctica
- Lowry Hill East, Minneapolis, a neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Buildings
- Wedge International Tower, in Houston, Texas
- The Wedge, the narrowest house in Britain, located on the island of Great Cumbrae
Science
- Wedge tornado
- Wedge pressure, the blood pressure measured in a pulmonary artery
- 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
- The wedge, a weather phenomenon resulting from cold air damming
Technology
- Wedge (mechanical device), a simple machine used to separate two objects, or portions of objects, through the application of force
- Wedge base, an electrical fitting for small light bulbs
- Wedge prism, used in surveying
- DOS Wedge, a piece of software for the Commodore 64 computer
- TVR Wedges, a series of sports cars
- Wheel chock, used to arrest wheels and prevent their movement
Other uses
- Wedge (footwear), a type of shoe
- Wedge (golf), a type of golf club
- Submarine sandwich
- Potato wedges
- Wedge Community Co-op, a grocery in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Wedge Group, a British galvanising company
- Wedge issue, in politics
- Wedge pattern, found in price charts
- Wedge strategy, a creationist political action plan
See also
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