Wedge
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- For a disambiguation of "The Wedge", see The Wedge.
The term wedge can refer to any one of the following things:
- Wedge Antilles, a fictional character in the Star Wars films. See also Wedge-type characters.
- Wedge (golf), a specialized type of club used in the sport of golf.
- Wedge issue, a divisive issue used to split the support base of an opposing political group.
- Wedge (mechanical device), a simple machine used to separate two objects, or portions of objects, through the application of force.
- Wedge product, a mathematical term related to the exterior algebra (or the Grassmann algebra) of a vector.
- 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]
- Wedge strategy, a Creationist political action plan.
- Wedge sum, in mathematics a "one-point union" of a family of topological spaces.
- In phonetics, a name for the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol, ĘŚ, representing the open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- A range of sports cars from British manufacturer TVR.
- A recurring character in the Final Fantasy video game series (see Biggs and Wedge).
- A form of cold air damming, a weather phenomenon.