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A wedge is a piece having the shape of a triangle. It is used often to split pieces of wood into smaller pieces. It is also a part of another simple machine the inclined plane.
The term wedge may mean many things. Some of them are as noted below:
- In mechanics, a wedge is a simple machine. People use this machine to separate two things. Sometimes, people use a wedge to split a thing into two or more parts, or to fix things tightly.
- Wedge product is a term in mathematics.
- Wedge Antilles is a character in many Star Wars films.
- In the 1976 Olympic games, a skater named Dorothy Hamill participated. People copied her hairstyle. This became wedge hairstyle.
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