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What is the noun for wedge?

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wedge
  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
  14. Synonyms:
  15. Examples:
    1. “The hatch crashed down about his head as he tried to shove the wedge into the open gap.”
      “Serve the salad with a large wedge of cornbread.”
wedgebill
  1. An Australian logrunner, Sphenostoma cristatum, that has a wedge-shaped bill
wedger
  1. A kitchen utensil for cutting fruit and vegetables into wedges.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The Cheftec Wedger Maestro machine enables the company to decore and cut over 3,000 pepper pieces per hour in consistent sizes.”
wedge
  1. (Britain, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The hatch crashed down about his head as he tried to shove the wedge into the open gap.”
      “Serve the salad with a large wedge of cornbread.”
wedging
  1. The process of supporting or securing something with a wedge.
wedgitude
  1. (computing) A state of being stuck or wedged.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Sorry I can't give more detail, I don't remember exactly what I did, either the path to wedgitude or the escape route.”
wedgebills
  1. plural of wedgebill
wedgings
  1. plural of wedging
wedgers
  1. plural of wedger
wedges
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