• Czech: hrana
• Finnish: särmä
• French: côté
• Português: face
• Spanish: arista

• Chinese: 刃
• Finnish: terä
• Greek: κόψη
• Kurdish: ده‌م
• Norwegian: egg
• Polish: ostrze
• Português: fio, gume
• Sardinian: atta
• Spanish: filo

• Finnish: terä

See also

• Mathworld article on the edges of polygons
• Mathworld article on the edges of polyhedra
• Science book

Verb

1. To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

   He edged the book across the table.

2. To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

   He edged away from her.

3. (cricket) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
4. Triming the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.

Derived terms

• edge out

Quotations

• 1925: Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), The Phantom of the Opera, silent movie

  In Mlle. Carlotta’s correspondence there appeared another letter, edged in black!

People

• Adam Copeland, a Canadian wrestler in World Wrestling Entertainment under the ring name "Edge".
• Arabella Edge, a writer and novelist
• Carey May Edge, an Irish former long-distance runner
• Claude "Butch" Lee Edge (born 1956), an American professional baseball player
• David Edge (born 1954), a British former long-distance runner
• (David) Andrew Edge, musician
• Geoffrey Edge (born 1943), a British politician
• Graeme Edge (born 1941), an English musician
• John T. Edge, an American food writer and commentator
• Lewis Edge (born 1987), an English professional footballer
• Selwyn Edge (1868-1940), an Australian businessman and racing car driver
• The Edge, an Irish musician and member of the rock band U2
• Walter Evans Edge (1873-1956), an American politician
• Edgerrin James, an American football player nicknamed "Edge"

Locations

• Edge House, a historic U.S. home in Groveland, Florida
• Edge Ice Arena, a U.S. multi-purpose arena in Bensenville, Illinois
• Lilliard Edge, formerly Ancrum moor, a bridge in Scotland

England

Edge is a colloquial noun to describe escarpments in England.

• Edge, a small village north of Stroud, Gloucestershire
• Edge, near Yockleton, Shrewsbury Shropshire
• Edge, Cheshire, a small village and civil parish in the City of Chester district of Cheshire, England
• Edge Hill, Warwickshire, an escarpment and hamlet in the county of Warwickshire, England, and site of the first battle of the English Civil War
• Alderley Edge, a village and civil parish in Cheshire
• Birchen Edge, a rock face in the Peak District, United Kingdom
• Birds Edge, a small village in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
• Blackstone Edge, an area of moorland along the Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire county boundary
• Brown Edge is a village and civil parish in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire
• Fremington Edge, a wall of crags and scree slopes in the Yorkshire Dales National Park
• Gardom's Edge, located near Baslow in Derbyshire
• Kinver Edge, a high heath and woodland escarpment in Staffordshire
• Moorside Edge, in West Yorkshire
• Snods Edge, a small hamlet in South Northumberland
• Wenlock Edge, a limestone escarpment near Much Wenlock, Shropshire

Science and technology

• Edge (graph theory), a line segment joining two nodes in a graph
• Edge (geometry), a line segment joining two vertices in a polytope
• Edge case, a problem or situation that occurs only at an extreme (maximum or minimum) operating parameter
• Edge of chaos, a phrase used to refer to a metaphor that some physical, biological, economic and social systems operate in a region between order and complete randomness or chaos, where the complexity is maximal
• Edge connector, the portion of a printed circuit board consisting of traces leading to the edge of the board that are intended to plug into an edge connector socket
• Edge detection, in image processing and computer vision, locating points in a digital image where the luminous intensity changes sharply
• Edge (digital), when a digital signal changes level it forms an "edge" in the waveform diagram. This is sometimes used in edge detection like in flip-flops.
• Edge device, an access device that provide entry points into enterprise or service provider core computer networks
• Edge effect, the effect of the juxtaposition of contrasting environments on an ecosystem
• Edge enhancement, a digital image processing filter that improves the apparent sharpness of an image or video
• Edge Foundation, an organization of science and technology intellectuals
• Edge Foundation (UK), an educational foundation that aims to improve vocational learning in schools
• Edge-of-the-wedge theorem, in quantum field theory
• Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE), a digital mobile phone technology
• Explicit Data Graph Execution, a computer architecture
• Bleeding edge, a description of technology that is so new (and thus, presumably, not perfected) that the user is required to risk reductions in stability and productivity in order to use it
• Clock edge, in electronics, a transition in a clock signal from either low to high (0 to 1) or high to low (1 to 0)
• Red edge, the region of rapid change in reflectance of chlorophyll in the near infrared range
• Silhouette edge, in computer graphics, is the collection of points on a 3D body projected onto a 2D plane (display plane) whose outwards surface normal is perpendicular to the view vector
• EDGE of Existence Programme, a research and conservation initiative that focuses on species deemed to be the world’s most Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE)

Aviation

• Leading edge, a line connecting the forward-most points of a wing's profile
• Trailing edge, the rear edge of the wing
• Zivko Edge 540, an aerobatic aircraft

Media

• The Edge (1997 film), a 1997 movie starring Anthony Hopkins
• The Edge (TV series), a 1992-1993 TV sketch comedy series on FOX
• The Edge Chronicles, a fantasy book series written by Paul Stewart and illustrated by Chris Riddell
• Edge TV, a defunct Canadian cable channel focusing on rock and alternative music
• The Edge (CNBC), a business news series on CNBC

Publications

• Edge (magazine), a multi-format computer and video games magazine published by Future Publishing in the UK
• Edge - the third culture a magazine exploring interesting ideas published by the Edge Foundation
• The Edge (Malaysia), a weekly financial newspaper in Malaysia
• The Edge (student newspaper), an independent student newspaper at Fort Hays State University
• Leading Edge, a speculative fiction magazine
• Marvel Edge, an imprint of Marvel Comics
• The Edge - Also called The Maine Edge, a Maine newspaper published weekly in Bangor, Maine

Radio

• Edge Radio, a radio station in Hobart, Tasmania
• The Edge (radio station), a New Zealand radio network
• The Edge Radio Lucena, a radio station in the Philippines.
• 104.1 The Edge, an Albuquerque, New Mexico Radio Station.
• CFNY-FM, a radio station in Toronto, Ontario
• KDGE-FM, a radio station in Dallas, Texas
• KEDJ, a radio station in Phoenix, Arizona
• WEDG, a radio station in Buffalo, New York

Fictional characters

• Edge, Josiah Hedges, the lead character in George G. Gilman's series of books set in the USA's Old West.
• Edge (Rival Schools), a character from the Rival Schools video game series
• Edward "Edge" Geraldine, a character from the game Final Fantasy IV
• Morgan Edge, a DC Comics supervillain
• Two-Edge, one of the main antagonists in the comic book series Elfquest

Other

• Edge Act, U.S. legislation which allows national banks to engage in international banking through federally chartered subsidiaries
  • Edge Act Corporation, a corporation chartered by the Federal Reserve of the United States under the above
• Edge Church, an Assemblies of God megachurch in Adelaide, South Australia
• Edge city, an American term for a relatively new concentration of business, shopping and entertainment outside a traditional urban area, in what had recently been a residential suburb or semi-rural community
• Edge (educational foundation), organisation promoting practical and vocational learning in the UK
• Edge jointing, the process of making the edge of a wooden board straight and true in preparation for edge joining
• Edge-to-edge tiling, a type of tiling
• Edge pull, in figure skating, a skill that allows the skater to gain speed while skating on one foot by rocking between inside and outside edges
• Edge Wireless, an American mobile phone provider
• EDGES with Mal Fletcher, a documentary TV series presenting evangelical Christian views on social issues
• Ford Edge, a midsize crossover vehicle
• Straight edge, a subculture that is closely associated with hardcore punk music
• West Michigan Edge, an American soccer team
• Edge (rock band), an alternative rock band based out of Houston, Texas
• The Edge, an attraction at the Eureka Tower in Melbourne, Australia

See also

• Cutting edge
• On the Edge
• Over the Edge
• The Edge (disambiguation)

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