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Meaning of wedge
noun
- 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. Example: Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape. Example: 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.
verb
- To support or secure using a wedge. Example: I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.
- To force into a narrow gap. Example: He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.
- 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. Example: My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.
- To cleave with a wedge.
noun
- (Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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