aileron

aircraft control surface used to induce roll
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aileron

Summary

aileron ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (461 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • aileron's subclass of is recorded as aircraft component[2].
  • aileron's has use is recorded as control[3].
  • aileron's Commons category is recorded as Ailerons[4].
  • aileron's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 40520[5].
  • aileron's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0jxc5[6].
  • aileron's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300002216[7].
  • aileron's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 629.13433[8].
  • aileron's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0219517[9].
  • aileron's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10].
  • aileron's described by source is recorded as Small Soviet Encyclopedia[11].
  • aileron's partially coincident with is recorded as elevon[12].
  • aileron's partially coincident with is recorded as spoileron[13].
  • aileron's partially coincident with is recorded as flaperon[14].
  • aileron's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/aileron[15].
  • aileron's different from is recorded as wing warping[16].
  • aileron's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as balanseror[17].
  • aileron's schematic is recorded as Alieron A-44 (PSF).png[18].
  • aileron's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 144918251[19].
  • aileron's Hrvatska enciklopedija ID is recorded as 993[20].
  • aileron's Lex ID is recorded as krængeror[21].
  • aileron's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 02688112-n[22].
  • aileron's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C144918251[23].
  • aileron's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as elerony-a45611[24].
  • aileron's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as alero[25].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for aileron include flaperon[26] and spoileron[27].

Why It Matters

aileron ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (461 views/month).[1] aileron has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] aileron is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Entities named for aileron include flaperon[26] and spoileron[27].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
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  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [26] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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