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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 Wedge Antilles is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise. He is a supporting character portrayed by Denis Lawson in the original ''Star Wars'' trilogy. He is also featured in the ''Star Wars'' expanded universe, most notably as ...

, a character in the ''Star Wars'' films * Wedge, a recurring character in the ''Final Fantasy'' video game series; see

Biggs and Wedge '' Final Fantasy'' is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and developed and owned by Square Enix (formerly Square). The franchise centers on a series of fantasy and science fantasy role-playing video games (RPGs). The eponymous f ...

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 Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 548 is a piece of organ music written by Johann Sebastian Bach sometime between 1727 and 1736, during his time in Leipzig. The work is sometimes called "The Wedge" due to the chromatic outward motion of the fugue ...

, 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, aired until 2007 * ''The Wedge'' (Canadian TV series), a music show on MuchMusic, aired until 2014

Publications

* ''The Wedge'' (poetry), a collection by William Carlos Williams * '' Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA'', a book by Mark Riebling

Linguistics

* Wedge (phonetics), the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol *

Caron A caron (), háček or haček (, or ; plural ''háčeks'' or ''háčky'') also known as a hachek, wedge, check, kvačica, strešica, mäkčeň, varnelė, inverted circumflex, inverted hat, flying bird, inverted chevron, is a diacritic mark (� ...

, háček or wedge, a diacritic symbol

Mathematics

Wedge (geometry) In solid geometry, a wedge is a polyhedron defined by two triangles and three trapezoid faces. A wedge has five faces, nine edges, and six vertices. A wedge is a subclass of the prismatoids with the base and opposite ridge in two parallel plane ...

, a polyhedral solid *

Wedge (symbol) Wedge (∧) is a symbol that looks similar to an in-line caret (^). It is used to represent various operations. In Unicode, the symbol is encoded and by \wedge and \land in TeX. The opposite symbol (∨) is called a vel, or sometimes a (descen ...

(

\land

), a symbol which is interpreted as logical conjunction ("and") *

Wedge product A wedge is a triangular shaped tool, and is a portable inclined plane, and one of the six simple machines. It can be used to separate two objects or portions of an object, lift up an object, or hold an object in place. It functions by convert ...

, the exterior product of vectors

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) The Wedge is a spot located at the extreme southeast end of the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, California known for its large waves that makes it a popular spot for surfing and bodysurfing. The Wedge is located at the intersection of the bea ...

, a surf spot in Newport Beach, California * Wedges Creek, Wisconsin *

Wedge Plantation The Wedge Plantation, which is also known as The Wedge or the William Lucas House, is a plantation about east of McClellanville in Charleston County, South Carolina. The plantation is a wedge-shaped property between the Harrietta Plantation ...

, South Carolina *

Lowry Hill East, Minneapolis Lowry Hill East is a neighborhood in southwest Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, part of the Calhoun Isles community. Lowry Hill East developed in the 1880s along a horse-drawn streetcar line built by Thomas Lowry. The interior of the nei ...

, a neighborhood nicknamed "the Wedge" in Minneapolis, 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, Antarctica * Wedge Ridge, in Coats Land, Antarctica

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

* Wedge (border), a small tract of land along the borders of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania * The Wedge (Montana), a mountain range * Wedge Peak (Alaska) * Wedge Pass

Food

Submarine sandwich A submarine sandwich, commonly known as a sub, hoagie ( Philadelphia metropolitan area and Western Pennsylvania English), hero ( New York City English), Italian ( Maine English), grinder (New England English), wedge (Westchester, NY), or a spuc ...

* Potato wedges, a large cut of potatoes 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 flying wedge (also called flying V or wedge formation, or simply wedge) is a configuration created from a body moving forward in a triangular formation. This V-shaped arrangement began as a successful military strategy in ancient times when inf ...

, a troop formation * The Wedge, the narrowest house in Britain, located on the island of

Great Cumbrae Great Cumbrae ( sco, Muckle Cumbrae; gd, Cumaradh Mòr; also known as Great Cumbrae Island, Cumbrae or the Isle of Cumbrae) is the larger of the two islands known as The Cumbraes in the lower Firth of Clyde in western Scotland. The island is ...

* DOS Wedge, a piece of software for the Commodore 64 computer *

TVR Wedges The TVR Wedges are a series of wedge-shaped sports cars built by British specialist sports car manufacturer TVR between 1980 and 1991. There were 2-seat convertibles and 2-seater or 2+2 liftback coupés, with four-, six- and eight-cylinder engi ...

, a series of sports cars * The wedge, a weather phenomenon resulting from

cold air damming Cold air damming, or CAD, is a meteorological phenomenon that involves a high-pressure system (anticyclone) accelerating equatorward east of a north-south oriented mountain range due to the formation of a barrier jet behind a cold front associated ...

Wedge issue A wedge issue is a political or social issue, often of a controversial or divisive nature, which splits apart a demographic or population group. Wedge issues can be advertised or publicly aired in an attempt to strengthen the unity of a populatio ...

or wedge politics, means of weakening one's political opponents *

Wedge strategy The Wedge Strategy is a creationist political and social action plan authored by the Discovery Institute, the hub of the pseudoscientific intelligent design movement. The strategy was put forth in a Discovery Institute manifesto known as the ...

, a creationist political and social action plan