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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.

A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.

(figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.

(geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. (Shapes)

(architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.

(archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.

A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.

(golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.

One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.

(obsolete) An ingot.

(by extension) Silver or items made of silver collectively.

(by extension) A quantity of money.

(regional) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.

One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.

Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.

(US) A (háček).

(phonetics) The (IPA) character {{IPAfont|ʌ}}, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.

(mathematics) The symbol (∧), denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.

(music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.

(meteorology) A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.

(meteorology) A wedge tornado.

(finance) 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'').

To support or secure using a wedge.

To force into a narrow gap.

To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.

To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.

Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.

To cleave with a wedge.

To force or drive with a wedge.

To shape into a wedge.

(Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.