Wedge
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition 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.
"Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut."
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
"Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?"
- Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
Verb
- To support or secure using a wedge.
"I wedged open the window with a screwdriver."
- To force into a narrow gap.
"He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa."
- 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.
"My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update."