Usually means: Boundary or limit of surface.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. edge: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. edge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. edge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. edge: Collins English Dictionary
  5. edge: Vocabulary.com
  6. Edge, edge, eDge: Wordnik
  7. edge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. EDGE, Edge, edge: Wiktionary
  9. edge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. edge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. edge: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Edge, edge: Dictionary.com
  13. edge: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. edge: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Edge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. edge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. edge: Rhymezone
  19. edge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. EDGE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. Edge: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. edge: Free Dictionary
  23. edge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. edge: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. edge: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. edge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. edge: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Coin Collecting Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. edge: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. EDGE, the edge: Netlingo
  2. EDGE: CCI Computer
  3. EDGE: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. edge: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  5. Webopedia (No longer online)
  6. edge: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. edge: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. EDGE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. edge: Idioms

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Edge: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  5. edge, edge: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  6. edge: Graph Theory

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. edge, edge, edge, edge: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. edge: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Edge: Chess Dictionary
  2. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  5. Edge: Sports Definitions

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. edge: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. EDGE: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)
  5. EDGE: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  6. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
  7. edge: Coin Collecting

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The boundary line of a surface.
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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