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Definition of Spherical wedge

Spherical wedge
Wedge Wedge, n. [OE. wegge, AS. wecg; akin to D. wig, wigge, OHG. wecki, G. weck a (wedge-shaped) loaf, Icel. veggr, Dan. v[ae]gge, Sw. vigg, and probably to Lith. vagis a peg. Cf. Wigg.] 1. 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. 2. (Geom.) A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. 3. A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form. ``Wedges of gold.' --Shak. 4. Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form. In warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. --Milton. 5. 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. [Cant, Cambridge Univ., Eng.] --C. A. Bristed. Fox wedge. (Mach. & Carpentry) See under Fox. Spherical wedge (Geom.), the portion of a sphere included between two planes which intersect in a diameter.

Meaning of Spherical wedge from wikipedia

- In geometry, a spherical wedge or ungula is a portion of a ball bounded by two plane semidisks and a spherical lune (termed the wedge's base). The angle...
- the spherical zone—which excludes the top and bottom bases—is given by A=2πRh.{\displaystyle A=2\pi Rh.} Spherical cap Spherical wedge Spherical sector...
- 2D figure. Spherical cap Spherical segment Spherical wedge Weisstein, Eric W. "Spherical sector". MathWorld. Weisstein, Eric W. "Spherical cone". MathWorld...
- spades: Spheres Hemisphere Spherical cap Spherical lune Spherical polygon Spherical sector Spherical segment Spherical wedge Spherical zone 3-sphere Affine...
- In geometry, a spherical cap or spherical dome is a portion of a sphere or of a ball cut off by a plane. It is also a spherical segment of one base, i...
- Florida: CRC Press, p. 130, 1987. Harris, J. W. and Stocker, H. "Spherical Wedge." §4.8.6 in Handbook of Mathematics and Com****tional Science. New...
- solids derived from a sphere. Dome Spherical cap Spherical sector Spherical segment Spherical s**** Spherical wedge Ellipsoid Spheroid Solid bounded by...
- F_{3}}{\partial z}}\right)dx\wedge dy\wedge dz=(\nabla \cdot {\mathbf {F} })\rho } where ∧{\displaystyle \wedge } is the wedge product. Thus, the divergence...
- Using the formulas for the surface area spherical cap and the spherical wedge, the surface of a spherical cap wedge is given by Area⁡(Θ≤θ...
- non-negative integer n. The n-sphere is the setting for n-dimensional spherical geometry. Considered extrinsically, as a hypersurface embedded in (n + 1)-dimensional...