0 a piece of wood or metal, thick at one end and sloping to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood etc or in fixing something tightly in place -- kile
1 something similar in shape -- (kileformet) stykke
a wedge of cheese.
2 to fix or become fixed by, or as if by, a wedge or wedges -- kile fast
The small smooth-surfaced donor cell was wedged between the zona and the ooplast to facilitate close membrane contact for subsequent fusion.
The maximum quantal flux was log 14.08 quanta incident cm 2 s 1, which could be attenuated by neutral density wedges.
Over time, pieces can break off, travel toward the brain, become wedged in a smaller branch of the artery, and cause a stroke.
Calibrated neutral density filters and wedges were placed in collimated and focused por tions of the beams, respectively.
Two examples of these progradation wedges are presented in detail.
At the parasequence and sequence scales, facies patterns consist of alternating carbonates and wedges of shale derived from opposite sides of the foreland basin.
A solution was obtained in the manner described above for 22.2" and 45" semiangle wedges.
Most of the larger deviations occurred in wedged fields.
