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EDGE

(Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution - or GSM Evolution) A 2.5G high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers worldwide that use the GSM technology, including AT&T (formerly Cingular) and T-Mobile in the U.S. Also called Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS), EDGE works on EDGE cellphones as well as laptops and portable devices that have EDGE modems. Superseding the GPRS data service, EDGE users have typically experienced downstream data rates up to 200 Kbps. See cellular generations, cellular vs. Wi-Fi, GSM, GPRS, TDMA and UWC-136.

edge
Maths
a. a line along which two faces or surfaces of a solid meet
b. a line joining two vertices of a graph
edge [ej]
(mathematics)
A line along which two plane faces of a solid intersect.
A line segment connecting nodes or vertices in a graph (a geometric representation of the relation among situations).
The edge of a half plane is the line that bounds it. Also known as arc.


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Inhaled or sipped as a tea, she says, the drug eases the pain of her arthritis and takes the edge off her depression.
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