(1) To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive. "My heart, as wedged with a sigh, would rive in twain." (2) To force or drive as a wedge is driven. "Among the crowd in the abbey where a finger Could not be wedged in more." (Shak) "He 's just the sort of man to wedge himself into a snug berth" (Mrs. J. H. Ewing). (3) To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way. 4. To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something. "Wedged in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast" (Dryden). (5) To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place. 6. To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc. Origin: Wedged; Wedging. (1) A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc, in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. (2) Geometry. A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. (3) A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form. "Wedges of gold." 4. Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form. "In warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings" (Milton). (5) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828. Fox wedge. Geometry. The portion of a sphere included between two planes which intersect in a diameter. Origin: OE. Wegge, AS. Wecg; akin to D. Wig, wigge, OHG. Wecki, G. Weck a (wedge-shaped) loaf, Icel. Veggr, Dan. Vaegge, Sw. Vigg, and probably to Lith. Vagis a peg. Cf. Wigg. Source: Websters Dictionary. Wedge may refer to: Mathematics: * Triangular prism, a parallel triangle wedge * 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 mathematical term in exterior algebra, named for the "∧" logical operator symbol * Wedge sum, in mathematics, a "one-point union" of a family of topological spaces Abstract concepts: * Wedge pattern, technical analysis financial chart patterns * Wedge issue, in politics, 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 ??, representing the open-mid back unrounded vowel * 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 emissionsMilitary: * Flying wedge, a troop formation * Wedge (hat) A type of hat used by some military organizations *Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA, a book by Mark Riebling Natural phenomena: * Wedge tornado, a tornado similar in shape to the mechanical device * A form of cold air damming, a weather phenomenon * Wedge pressure, the blood pressure measured in a pulmonary arteryorganisations: * Wedge Community Co-op, a cooperative grocery in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States * Wedge Records, a record label * Wedge Group a British Galvanising Company People and characters: * Eric Wedge, baseball manager * 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 * A recurring character in the Final Fantasy video game series: see Biggs and WedgePhysical objects: * A foldback (sound engineering) wedge, or monitor wedge * A name for a submarine sandwich in Westchester & Putnam Counties, New York, and in Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA * A range of sports cars from British manufacturer TVR * A shortening of Potato wedges * wedge base, an electrical fitting for small light bulbs * Wedge (footwear), a specific form of shoe sole construction * Wedge (golf), a specialized type of club used at short ranges * Wedge (mechanical device), a simple machine used to separate two objects, or portions of objects, through the application of force * Wedge prism, a thin triangular prism in optics * Wheel chocks are wedges or at least partially wedge-shaped object used to arrest wheels and prevent their movement Places: * Wedge island (disambiguation) * Wedge (border), a small tract of land along the borders of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. (An OSH glossary used in safety and health at work which is, adopted by ILO