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), 1944 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 *

Caron A caron or háček ( ), is a diacritic mark () placed over certain letters in the orthography of some languages, to indicate a change of the related letter's pronunciation. Typographers tend to use the term ''caron'', while linguists prefer ...

, háček or wedge, a diacritic symbol

Mathematics

* Wedge (geometry), a polyhedral solid * Wedge (symbol) (

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

Wedge product A wedge is a triangular shaped tool, 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 converting a fo ...

, the exterior product of vectors *

Wedge sum In topology, the wedge sum is a "one-point union" of a family of topological spaces. Specifically, if ''X'' and ''Y'' are pointed spaces (i.e. topological spaces with distinguished basepoints x_0 and y_0) the wedge sum of ''X'' and ''Y'' is the ...

, 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 A submarine sandwich, commonly known as a sub, is a type of American cold or hot sandwich made from a submarine roll (an elongated bread roll) that is split lengthwise and filled with meats, cheeses, vegetables, and condiments. Although "subma ...

* 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