Wedge vs. Rhomboid — What's the Difference?

A wedge is a triangular shaped tool, and is a portable inclined plane, and one of the six simple machines. It can be used to separate two objects or portions of an object, lift up an object, or hold an object in place.

Traditionally, in two-dimensional geometry, a rhomboid is a parallelogram in which adjacent sides are of unequal lengths and angles are non-right angled. A parallelogram with sides of equal length (equilateral) is a rhombus but not a rhomboid.

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.

A parallelogram with unequal adjacent sides, especially one having oblique angles.

Something shaped like a wedge

Shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid.

A wedge-shaped formation, as in ground warfare.

A parallelogram which is neither a rhombus nor a rectangle

Something that intrudes and causes division or disruption

Any of several muscles that control the shoulders

Something that forces an opening or a beginning

A solid shape which has rhombic faces

(Meteorology) See ridge.

Resembling, or shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid

(Sports) An iron golf club with a very slanted face, used to lift the ball sharply upward, as from sand.

An oblique-angled parallelogram like a rhomb, but having only the opposite sides equal, the length and with being different.

A shoe having a heel that extends across the shank to the half sole, forming a continuous undersurface. Also called wedgie.

Same as Rhomboidal.

Downstate New York See submarine sandwich.

A parallelogram with adjacent sides of unequal lengths; an oblique-angled parallelogram with only the opposite sides equal

One of the various triangular marks that are the basic structural elements of cuneiform writing symbols.

Any of several muscles of the upper back that help move the shoulder blade

(Sports) In snow skiing, the snowplow.

Shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid;

To split or force apart with or as if with a wedge

To fix in place or tighten with a wedge

To crowd or squeeze into a limited space

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.

A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.

(figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.

(geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. Category:en:Shapes

(architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.

(archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.

A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.

(golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.

One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.

(obsolete) An ingot.

Silver or items made of silver collectively.

A quantity of money.

A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.

One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.

Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.

A háček.

(phonetics) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.

(mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.

(music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.

(meteorology) A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.

(meteorology) A wedge tornado.

(finance) A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).

The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.

(transitive) To support or secure using a wedge.

(ambitransitive) To force into a narrow gap.

(transitive) To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.

(transitive) 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.

(transitive) To cleave with a wedge.

(transitive) To force or drive with a wedge.

(transitive) To shape into a wedge.

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.

A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.

Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.

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 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.

To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.

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.

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.

To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.

Any shape that is triangular in cross section

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

A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation

A heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe

(golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole

Something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them

A block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object

Fix, force, or implant;

Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space;