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) (${\displaystyle \land }$), 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
• Farmers and Merchants Bank Building (Monroe City, Missouri), also known as "The Wedge"

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

See also

• Wedgie
• Wedge-tailed eagle, known in Australian English as a "wedgie"
• All pages with titles beginning with Wedge
• All pages with titles containing Wedge
• All pages with titles beginning with The Wedge
• All pages with titles containing The Wedge

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This page was last edited on 18 May 2024, at 04:23