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.
Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.
noun A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?
noun A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
noun A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
noun Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
drive a wedge between [persons, peoples, camps, allies, etc.]
noun A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories; a shot made with such a club.
noun One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes, which lift the heel of the foot from the ground.
noun Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation. A háček. The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel. The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction. A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo. One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.