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Edgbaston Cricket Ground

Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham: home of Warwickshire CCC since 1885, first Test 1902, venue of the 1973 Women's World Cup final, Lara's 501, and a £46m redevelopment due for the 2027 Ashes.

Edge (magazine)

Edge is a British monthly video game magazine launched October 1993 by Future Publishing, Bath, edited by Steve Jarratt; known for anonymous single-voice writing, a strict 10-point scale (first 10/10: Super Mario 64), critical tone, and 400+ issues still in print with Future plc.

EDGE (telecommunication)

EDGE, or Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EGPRS), is a mobile technology that triples GSM data rates by adding 8PSK modulation, with first networks live in 2003.

Edge (wrestler)

Edge (Adam Joseph Copeland, born 1973), Canadian wrestler and actor; 11-time WWE World Champion, first Money in the Bank cash-in, retired 2011 on neck injury, returned 2020, joined AEW in 2023 as Cope.

Edge AI

Edge AI is the practice of running machine learning inference directly on resource-constrained hardware such as smartphones and microcontrollers, driven by latency, privacy, and cost.

Edge case

An edge case, also called an edge condition, is a problem or situation occurring only at an extreme operating parameter, such as a maximum, minimum, or boundary value.

EDGE certification

EDGE certification, short for Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies, is a green building system created by the IFC that certifies buildings saving 20 percent in energy, water, and materials.

Edge coloring

Edge coloring assigns colors to a graph's edges so that edges meeting at a common endpoint get different colors; the chromatic index is the minimum number of colors required.

Edge computing

Edge computing, also known as edge cloud, is a distributed computing approach that processes data on or near the devices that generate it, rather than in a remote cloud.

Edge connectivity

Edge connectivity, also called line connectivity, is a graph invariant that counts the minimum number of edges whose deletion disconnects a graph, measuring network robustness.

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.