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.A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.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-heeled shoes.A quantity of money.A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.HáčekThe IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.A wedge tornado.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).verb
To support or secure using a wedge.To force into a narrow gap.To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.To cleave with a wedge.To force or drive with a wedge.To shape into a wedge.