Associations to the word «Wedge»

WEDGE, noun. 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.

WEDGE, noun. A piece (of food, etc.) having this shape.

WEDGE, noun. (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.

WEDGE, noun. (figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.

WEDGE, noun. (archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.

WEDGE, noun. (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.

WEDGE, noun. A group of geese, swans or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.

WEDGE, noun. (in the plural) Wedge-heeled shoes.

WEDGE, noun. (colloquial) (British) A quantity of money.

WEDGE, noun. (typography) (US) háček

WEDGE, noun. (phonetics) The IPA character , which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.

WEDGE, noun. (mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.

WEDGE, verb. To support or secure using a wedge.

WEDGE, verb. To force into a narrow gap.

WEDGE, verb. To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.

WEDGE, noun. (UK) (Cambridge University) (slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.

WEDGE HEEL, noun. A heel of shoe which is part of the sole.

WEDGE HEEL, noun. A shoe with such a heel.

WEDGE ISSUE, noun. (politics) (social relations) A discussion point or a difference in points of view which is particularly likely to be controversial and a source of discord between discussants or other involved parties; a difference in viewpoints which causes disharmony within a political or social group.

WEDGE ISSUES, noun. Plural of wedge issue

WEDGE OF CIRCLES, noun. (graph theory) A graph with only one vertex.

WEDGE POLITICS, noun. (politics) A strategy or pattern of behavior by a politician, political party, or advocacy group which is intended to have a divisive effect on one's political opponents or on the electorate, especially by emphasizing an issue which polarizes opinion along racial, regional, or other demographic lines.

WEDGE PRISM, noun. A prism with a shallow angle between its input and output surfaces.

WEDGE PRISMS, noun. Plural of wedge prism

WEDGE PRODUCT, noun. (differential geometry) Given two one-forms ω and η, their wedge product is \(\omega \wedge \eta = \omega \otimes \eta - \eta \otimes \omega \), where \(\otimes\) is the tensor product.

WEDGE PRODUCTS, noun. Plural of wedge product

WEDGE SUM, noun. (topology) A one-point union of a family of topological spaces.

WEDGE SUMS, noun. Plural of wedge sum

WEDGE TOMB, noun. A kind of Irish chamber tomb with the burial chamber narrowed at one end.

WEDGE TOMBS, noun. Plural of wedge tomb

WEDGE, noun. Any shape that is triangular in cross section.

WEDGE, noun. A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States.

WEDGE, noun. A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation.

WEDGE, noun. A heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe.

WEDGE, noun. (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole.

WEDGE, noun. Something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them.

WEDGE, noun. A block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object.

WEDGE, verb. Put, fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"; "stick your thumb in the crack".

WEDGE, verb. Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner".