meaning of wedged
1. wedged 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help. This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning. If the system is wedged, it is trying to do something but cannot make progress; it may be capable of doing a few things, but not be fully operational. For example, a process may become wedged if it deadlocks with another but not all instances of wedging are deadlocks. See also gronk, locked up, hosed. 2. Often refers to humans suffering misconceptions. "Hes totally wedged - hes convinced that he can levitate through meditation. " 3. [Unix] Specifically used to describe the state of a TTY left in a losing state by abort of a screen-oriented program or one that has messed with the line discipline in some obscure way. There is some dispute over the origin of this term. It is usually thought to derive from a common description of recto-cranial inversion; however, it may actually have originated with older "hot-press" printing technology in which physical type elements were locked into type frames with wedges driven in by mallets. Once this had been done, no changes in the typesetting for that page could be made. [Jargon File] wedgie Fairchild A bug. Probably related to wedged. wedgitude /wedji-t[y]ood/ The quality or state of being wedged. [Jargon File] Weeble /weeb*l/ An egg-shaped plastic toy person with a weight in the bottom so that, if tipped over, they would right themselves and stand up again. They were popular in the UK during the 1970s and were famous for the slogan "Weebles wobble but they dont fall down", unlike some computers pretty tenuous link with computing.
2. wedged or packed in together; "an impacted
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