wedge
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.
Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.
A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?
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.
I made a big fat wedge from that job.
A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli.
Háček
The 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).