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What does wedge mean?

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Noun
  1. 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.
  2. A piece (of food, etc.) having this shape.
  3. (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
  4. (figuratively) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
  5. (archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
  6. (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
  7. A group of geese, swans or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
  8. One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
  9. (colloquial, Britain) A quantity of money.
  10. (typography, US) háček
  11. (phonetics) The IPA character ⟨ʌ⟩, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
  12. (mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
  13. (meteorology) a wedge tornado
Verb
  1. To support or secure using a wedge.
  2. To force into a narrow gap.
  3. To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
  4. (computing) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
Noun
  1. (Britain, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
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