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▸ noun: (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
▸ noun: An advantage.
▸ noun: (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
▸ noun: A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
▸ noun: Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
▸ noun: The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
▸ noun: (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
▸ noun: (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
▸ noun: A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
▸ noun: (computing, often attributive) The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
▸ verb: (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
▸ verb: (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
▸ verb: (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
▸ verb: (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
▸ verb: (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
▸ verb: (transitive) To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
▸ verb: (transitive) To form a border to; to enclose, to border.
▸ verb: (figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
▸ verb: (intransitive, transitive, slang) To intentionally stay or keep someone extremely close to the point of orgasm for a long period of time.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang, figuratively) To agitate or exasperate (someone) due to constant delays of something.
▸ noun: (scouting, education) Explain, demonstrate, guide, enable; an educating method.
▸ noun: (gridiron football) Notation for an edge rusher.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: (computing) Microsoft Edge.
▸ noun: A place name:
▸ noun: A village in Painswick parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8409).
▸ noun: A hamlet in Pontesbury parish, south of Yockleton, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3908).
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Brazos County, Texas, United States, founded by Dr. John Edge.
▸ noun: (mobile telephony) Acronym of Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution.
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