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alidade

Summary

alidade ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (450 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • alidade is a type of physical tool[2].
  • alidade's Commons category is recorded as Alidades[3].
  • alidade's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[4].
  • alidade's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[5].
  • alidade's described by source is recorded as Technical Encyclopedia, 1st edition[6].
  • alidade's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Second Edition[7].
  • alidade's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • alidade's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9].
  • alidade's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10].

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Definition and Type

alidade is a type of physical tool[2].

Why It Matters

alidade ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (450 views/month).[1] alidade has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] alidade is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → physical tool
    Described by source → Sytin Military Encyclopedia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Technical Encyclopedia, 1st edition +4
    Biblissima authority id → Q297608
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q297608, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
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