Wedge

Wedge, The Wedge, or Wedges may refer to:

Art and entertainment

• The Wedge (Australian TV series)
• The Wedge (Canadian TV series)
• The Wedge (poetry), a collection by William Carlos Williams

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
• Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 548, a work by Johann Sebastian Bach
• Wedge Records, a record label

Linguistics

• Wedge (phonetics), the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol ʌ, representing the open-mid back unrounded vowel
• Caron or háček, a diacritic symbol

Mathematics

• Wedge (geometry), a polyhedral solid defined by two triangles and three trapezoid faces
• Wedge (symbol) ($\land$), a symbol which is interpreted as logical conjunction ("and")
• Wedge product, a term in exterior algebra, named for the "∧" logical operator symbol
• Wedge sum, a "one-point union" of a family of topological spaces
• Triangular prism

Military

• Flying wedge, a troop formation
• Side cap, a type of hat used by some military organizations
• Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA, a book by Mark Riebling

People

• Cathy Wedge (born 1950), Canadian equestrian
• Charles Wedge, Australian explorer
• Charles Wedge of Shudy Camps (1746–1842), English farmer and surveyor
• Chris Wedge (born 1957), American voice actor, producer and director
• Don Wedge (1929–2012), American football official
• Edward Davy Wedge (1777–1852), Tasmanian settler
• Edwin Wedge (1911–1994), American speed skater
• Eric Wedge (born 1968), American baseball manager
• Frederick Wedge (1880–1953), American boxer
• Harry Wedge (1958–2012), Australian Aboriginal artist
• James Wedge (born 1939), British fashion designer and photographer
• John Wedge (1744–1816), English agriculturalist
• John Helder Wedge (1793–1872), Tasmanian explorer and politician
• Stuart Wedge (born 1985), English cricketer
• Thomas Wedge (rugby union) (1881–1964), British rugby union player
• Thomas Wedge of Chester (1760–1854), English agriculturalist
• Warren O. (Wedge) Grimm (1888–1919), American Legion Post Commander killed in the Centralia massacre

Places

• Wedge (border), a small tract of land along the borders of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania
• The Wedge (Alberta), a mountain in Canada
• The Wedge (Montana), a mountain range in the United States
• The Wedge (surfing), a surf spot in Newport Beach, California, United States
• Wedges Creek, a stream in Wisconsin
• Wedge Face, on the Shackleton Coast, Antarctica
• Wedge Island (disambiguation)
• Wedge Mountain, in British Columbia, Canada
  • Wedge Pass
• Wedge Peak (Alaska)
• Wedge Plantation, in South Carolina, United States
• Wedge Ridge, in Coats Land, Antarctica
• Lowry Hill East, Minneapolis, a neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Buildings

• Wedge International Tower, in Houston, Texas
• The Wedge, the narrowest house in Britain, located on the island of Great Cumbrae

Science

• Wedge tornado
• Wedge pressure, the blood pressure measured in a pulmonary artery
• Stabilization Wedge Game, in climatology, a concept developed to demonstrate that global warming is a problem which can be solved by implementing today's technologies to reduce CO₂ emissions
• The wedge, a weather phenomenon resulting from cold air damming

Technology

• Wedge (mechanical device), a simple machine used to separate two objects, or portions of objects, through the application of force
• Wedge base, an electrical fitting for small light bulbs
• Wedge prism, used in surveying
• DOS Wedge, a piece of software for the Commodore 64 computer
• TVR Wedges, a series of sports cars
• Wheel chock, used to arrest wheels and prevent their movement

Other uses

• Wedge (footwear), a type of shoe
• Wedge (golf), a type of golf club
• Submarine sandwich
• Potato wedges
• Wedge Community Co-op, a grocery in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
• Wedge Group, a British galvanising company
• Wedge issue, in politics
• Wedge pattern, found in price charts
• Wedge strategy, a creationist political action plan

See also

• Wedgie