Wedge

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For a disambiguation of "The Wedge", see The Wedge.

The term wedge can refer to any of the following things:

[edit] Concrete objects, natural phenomena, and organisations

• Wedge (mechanical device), a simple machine used to separate two objects, or portions of objects, through the application of force.
• Wedge (golf), a specialized type of club used at short ranges.
• Wedge tornado, a tornado similar in shape to a Wedge (mechanical device).
• A form of cold air damming, a weather phenomenon.
• Wedge Card, a social enterprise started by the founder of The Big Issue, John Bird to promote local business, shops and communities.
• Wedge Community Co-op, a cooperative grocery in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• Wedge Records, a record label
• Wedge (sandwich), a name for a hero sandwich, submarine sandwich, or hoagie in Westchester and Putnam Counties, New York, USA.[1]
• A range of sports cars from British manufacturers TVR.

[edit] People and characters

• A poker champion
• Wedge Antilles, a fictional character in the Star Wars films.
• A recurring character in the Final Fantasy video game series (see Biggs and Wedge).

[edit] Abstract concepts

• Wedge (geometry), a polyhedral solid defined by two triangles and three trapezoid faces.
• Wedge product, a mathematical term related to the exterior algebra (or the Grassmann algebra) of a vector.
• Wedge sum, in mathematics a "one-point union" of a family of topological spaces.
• Wedge issue, a divisive issue used to split the support base of an opposing political group.
• Wedge strategy, a Creationist political action plan.
• In phonetics, a name for the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol, ʌ, representing the open-mid back unrounded vowel.