ETYM Old Eng. eg, egge, AS. ecg; akin to Old High Germ. ekka, German ecke, Icel. and Swed. egg, Dan. eg, and to Latin acies, Greek ake point, Skr. açri edge. Related to Egg, Eager, Ear spike of corn, Acute.
1. A sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object.
2. A slight competitive advantage.
3. A strip near the boundary of an object; SYN. margin.
4. The attribute of urgency; SYN. sharpness.
5. The boundary of a surface; SYN. border.

To advance slowly, as if by inches; SYN. inch.

Acronym for Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution or Enhanced Data Rates for GSM and TDMA Evolution. A third-generation enhancement to the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) wireless service, which allows data, multimedia services, and applications to be delivered on broadband at rates up to 384 Kbps.

At or constituting a border or edge; SYN. fringe, fringy, marginal.

1. In graphics, a border joining two polygons.
2. In data structures, a link between two nodes on a tree or graph. See also graph, node (definition 3), tree.