wedge

Definitions

• One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
• A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
• (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
• (figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
• (archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
• (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
• A group of geese, swans or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
• One of a pair of wedge wedge-heeled shoes.
• (colloquial) A quantity of money.
• (US) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
• (typography) háček
• (phonetics) The IPA character , which denotes an -mid back unrounded open-mid back unrounded vowel.
• (mathematics) The symbol ∧ (∧), denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
• (meteorology) A wedge tornado.
• (finance) A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).