Definitions for "wedge"
A golf club having an iron head with the face nearly horizontal, used for lofting the golf ball at a high angle, as when hitting the ball out of a sand trap or the rough.
(aka: "pitching wedge", "sand wedge", "lob wedge", "third wedge", "utility wedge") a short iron with significant loft mainly for playing shorter, more lofted shots. Example: "After a nice tee shot, she only had a wedge left to the green."
A short high lofted club intended to make the ball go high but not long. A pitching wedge usually has a loft of 48 degrees or more, while lob wedges have a 60 degree or higher loft.
Technical anlaysis term used to describe the chart formation in which price...
A chart formation in which the price fluctuations are confined within converging straight lines. It differs form a triangle in that both boundary lines slope either up or down.
an object with at least one slanting side closing within a particular crisp border, what cuts stuff apart
An optical element with its faces inclined toward each other at very small angles, diverting light toward the thicker parts of the element.
A solid having two inclined faces.
See snowplow.
A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.
A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
This describes the head shape of some breeds of cat.
This is the thing that a fork-mounted Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope will attach to, to connect it to the tripod. You want it to be sturdy.
The part that fits between the tripod or pillar and the fork of a fork-mounted telescope, which enables the fork to be equatorially aligned.
An equatorial wedge is used for imaging with a fork-mounted telescope. Most computerized telescopes have alt-azimuth fork mounts where the fork point straight up and down. This configuration is easiest to use because the eyepiece is always in a convenient position and the telescope is less bulky. However, field rotation results if the telescope is not polar aligned. An equatorial wedge mounts between the telescope and tripod to allow the forks to be aimed toward Polaris so the telescope can track in just one axis, eliminating field rotation.
A plastic or magnesium tool used by a faller to redistribute a tree's weight to a desired direction (lift) and to prevent a tree from sitting back. Also used to prevent the guide bar from being pinched while bucking.
Refers to the relationship from corner-to-corner of the weight of the race vehicle. Increasing the weight on any corner of the vehicle affects the weight of the other three corners in direct proportion. Weight adjustments are made by turning "weight jacking screws" mounted on each corner with a ratchet. A typical adjustment for a "loose" car would be to increase the weight of the left rear corner of the vehicle, which decreases the weight of the left front and right rear corners and increases the weight of the right front. A typical adjustment for a "tight" vehicle would be to increase the weight of the right rear corner, which decreases the weight of the right front and left rear and increases the weight of the left front.
squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner"
A wedge decodes "read" data (i.e. bar codes, credit cards) and communicates that information through a keyboard port on a computer. The keyboard plugs into the wedge and the wedge device plugs into the computer where the keyboard was. Sophisticated wedges can accept a few different peripheral devices. Also See Decode.
This is a device that plugs in between a keyboard and a terminal. It allows data to be entered either by keyboard or by various types of scanners.
A device that plugs in between a keyboard and a PC. The wedge takes data from a bar code scanner and converts the data to represent keystrokes.
A wedge-shaped foldback speaker. Angled so that it can sit on the stage floor and point up at musicians/cast.
Foldback speaker placed on the floor at the feet of stage vocalists to deliver the monitor mix for performers.
A monitor speaker, in the shape of a wedge, designed to sit on the floor and be directed toward the performer(s).
A heel shape characterized by a solid wedge shaped platform heel with the heel portion being raised above the toe.
Leather or rubber used for building up one side or the other between the hoof and shoe.
A device used to direct ultrasonic energy into a test object at an acute angle. See also shoe.
(or Wedge Tornado) - [Slang], a large tornado with a condensation funnel that is at least as wide (horizontally) at the ground as it is tall (vertically) from the ground to cloud base. The term "wedge" often is used somewhat loosely to describe any large tornado. However, not every large tornado is a wedge. A true wedge tornado, with a funnel at least as wide at the ground as it is tall, is very rare. Wedges often appear with violent tornadoes (F4 or F5 on the Fujita Scale), but many documented wedges have been rated lower. And some violent tornadoes may not appear as wedges (e.g., Xenia, OH on 3 April 1974, which was rated F5 but appeared only as a series of suction vortices without a central condensation funnel). Whether or not a tornado achieves "wedge" status depends on several factors other than intensity - in particular, the height of the environmental cloud base and the availability of moisture below cloud base. Therefore, spotters should not estimate wind speeds or F-scale ratings based on visual appearance alone. However, it generally is safe to assume that most (if not all) wedges have the potential to produce strong (F2/F3) or violent (F4/F5) damage.
Same as ridge.
Primarily refers to an elongated area of shallow high pressure at the earth's surface. It is generally associated with cold air east of the Rockies or Appalachians. It is another name for a ridge, ridge line, or ridge axis. Contrast with a trough. Wedge is also a slang term for a large, wide tornado with a wedge-like shape.
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To shift vehicle weight in oval-track racing by raising or lowering the springs with small blocks or wedges.
A pie-shaped segment of an oval, bounded by a pair of radii joining at the oval's center.
a round hard rubber piece that is inserted or snapped between the coils on the suspension springs of race cars to increase the spring rates
(Also known as a Penny, a Gunnery Award, an Eurmal and a hundred other silly names). An award for acts of inspired stupidity. Wedges have fallen from favour because a) anecdotes are out at prizegivings, and b) too many players trashed modules in an attempt to win such awards.
To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.
1. In logging, to drive a solid V-shaped object (the wedge) into the saw cut to prevent the saw from binding and to direct the fall of the tree. 2. Slang for a prism used in cruising timber.
a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
A cut that Trevor Sorbie created in the 70's.
a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation
Invented by Malibu Boats, a large plate that lowers into the water off the back of the boat to pull the back of the boat deeper, and thus making a bigger/steeper wake.
To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
(as viewed from the top of front) is created by straight lines from outer ear bases along sides of muzzle, without a break at the jaw line at the whiskers. Skull to be flat a the straight nose a continuation of the forehead
Tactical formation of two or more aircraft with the single in front and the other aircraft laterally displaced on either side behind the leader's wing line.
A beam modifying device which is used to correct for varying thickness in a field of radiation. It is used in radiotherapy for breast cancer because the thickness of the breast will vary from its apex to its base.
A treatment beam modifying device acting to change the intensity of the treatment beam in a graduated fashion across the width of the treatment portal.
To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
American name for snowplough.
W formation Whisper number or forecast
The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
a bent-line barrier of buoys, specified by buoy spacing and two true bearings
The gap between the price paid by the buyer and price received by the seller in an exchange. Might be caused by a tax paid to a third party. Source: econterms
a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
A block of rock bounded by joints on three or more sides that can fall or slide out under the action of gravity, unless supported.
the part of an astrolabe which secures the pin; also called the 'horse'.
Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
a machine that helps push two things apart
a simple machine also
See Hook
A small stone placed under or behind a face stone to position it securely.
A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.