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Edge connector
An edge connector is a board-to-board interconnect in which gold-plated contact pads, called fingers, along a printed circuit board's edge plug directly into a matching socket.
Edge data center
An edge data center is a small computing facility sited close to the users, devices, or sensors it serves, trading capacity for lower latency and fast local processing.
Edge detection
Edge detection, also known as border detection, is an image-processing technique that locates sharp intensity changes in a digital image, corresponding to object boundaries and scene structure.
Edge dislocation
An edge dislocation is a line defect in a crystal lattice formed by the end of an extra half-plane of atoms; its gliding under shear stress carries plastic deformation in crystals.
Edge enhancement
Edge enhancement is an image processing technique that increases contrast along object boundaries in a digital image, making edge detail more detectable by people and computer vision algorithms.
EDGE Evolution
EDGE Evolution is a set of 3GPP Release 7 enhancements to the GSM/EDGE radio interface, raising peak data rates above 1 Mbps and cutting latency to around 100 ms.
Edge Impulse
Edge Impulse is a cloud-based MLOps platform for building machine learning models on edge devices like microcontrollers, founded in 2019 and acquired by Qualcomm in 2025.
Edge Investments
Edge Investments, formerly Edge Investment Management Limited, is a London-based venture capital firm founded by David Glick that invests in early-stage UK creative-economy companies such as edtech and virtual reality.
Edge joint
An edge joint is a light-duty welding joint, one of five basic AWS types, joining parallel sheet edges, flanges, and can lids, one of the easiest joints to weld.
Edge Medical (深圳市精锋医疗科技股份有限公司) (精锋医疗)
Edge Medical (精锋医疗) is a Chinese surgical robot developer in Shenzhen, founded in 2017, the first in China with NMPA approvals for multi-port, single-port, and bronchoscopic robots.
Edge of Darkness
Edge of Darkness: 1985 BBC Two six-part serial by Troy Kennedy Martin, directed by Martin Campbell, starring Bob Peck as detective Ronald Craven investigating his daughter's murder; won six BAFTAs, remade as a 2010 Mel Gibson film.
Edge of Darkness (2010 film)
Edge of Darkness is a 2010 political conspiracy thriller directed by Martin Campbell, a remake of his 1985 BBC series, starring Mel Gibson as a Boston detective.
Edge of Seventeen
Edge of Seventeen refers to Stevie Nicks's 1981 song from Bella Donna (No. 11 Hot 100, sampled in Destiny's Child's Bootylicious), plus a 1998 coming-out film and Kelly Fremon Craig's 2016 teen drama with Hailee Steinfeld.
Edge of Seventeen (1998 film)
Edge of Seventeen (1998) is an American independent gay coming-of-age drama directed by David Moreton and written by Todd Stephens, set in 1984 Sandusky, Ohio, starring Chris Stafford, Tina Holmes, and Lea DeLaria.
Edge of Tomorrow
Edge of Tomorrow, also known as Live Die Repeat, is a 2014 American science-fiction film directed by Doug Liman, starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.
Edge sorting
Edge sorting: advantage-play technique exploiting asymmetric card backs, rotating cards 180 degrees to identify high cards in baccarat; known from Phil Ivey's £7.7m Crockfords and $9.6m Borgata cases, courts ruled it cheating.
Edge technique
The edge technique is a direct-detection Doppler lidar method for measuring atmospheric wind, introduced by Korb, Gentry, and Weng in 1992 and used on ESA's Aeolus satellite.
Edge wave
An edge wave is a surface ocean wave trapped against a sloping coast by refraction, propagating along the shoreline with an amplitude that decays rapidly offshore.
Edge-localized mode
The edge-localized mode (ELM) is a magnetohydrodynamic instability at the edge of tokamak plasmas in H-mode, periodically ejecting bursts of energy and particles, and controlling it is a central problem for ITER.
EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX is a privately held American data center operator founded in 2009 and based in Herndon, Virginia, operating over 80 data centers across more than 50 global markets.
Edgell Island
Edgell Island is a Nunavut island off Baffin Island's southeastern tip in Davis Strait, near the Frobisher Bay entrance; 61°50′N 65°W, elevation 148 m, official Canadian name since 1946, distinct from a British Columbia namesake.
Edgeøya
Edgeøya (Edge Island), uninhabited island of Svalbard, Norway; third largest at 5,073 km², between Storfjorden and Freemansundet, named for whaler Thomas Edge, glacier-covered, in Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve since 1973.
Edgeoyjokulen
Edgeoyjokulen (Edgeøyjøkulen) is a 1,365 km² ice cap on Edgeøya, Svalbard, at about 77°40′N 23°24′E; one of Svalbard's largest ice caps, nearly three times the area of mainland Norway's Jostedalsbreen.
Edgerrin James
Edgerrin James, NFL running back 1999-2009 with Colts, Cardinals, Seahawks; 1999 4th overall pick, back-to-back rushing titles 1999-2000, 12,246 career rushing yards, 80 TDs, Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2020.
Edgerton Hartwell
Edgerton Hartwell II, also listed as Ed Hartwell, American NFL linebacker (born 1978, Las Vegas); Ravens 2001-04, Falcons 2005-06; 2001 fourth-round draft pick, 77 career games.
EDGES
EDGES, a radio astronomy experiment by Arizona State University and MIT, claimed in 2018 the first detection of the global 21-centimeter signal from Cosmic Dawn.
Edgewater Growth Capital Partners
Edgewater Growth Capital Partners is the fund family of The Edgewater Funds, a Chicago-based middle-market private equity firm founded by Jim Gordon that invests in growth equity and buyouts.
Edgewater, Chicago
Edgewater is Chicago Community Area #77, a dense lakefront North Side neighborhood founded by John Lewis Cochran in the 1880s, annexed in 1889, and separated from Uptown in 1980; about 56,600 residents, majority-renter, highly educated, on the CTA Red Line.
Edgewise Therapeutics
Edgewise Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, founded in 2017, that develops small molecule drugs targeting the sarcomere, first for muscular dystrophies and since 2026 for cardiovascular disease.
Edgewood Arsenal human experiments
The Edgewood Arsenal human experiments were classified U.S. Army studies exposing about 7,000 soldier volunteers to over 250 chemicals, including nerve agents and LSD, from 1955 to 1975.