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angle of repose

(of a granular material) steepest angle of descent or dip relative to the horizontal plane to which a material can be piled without slumping. At this angle, the material on the slope face is on the verge of sliding
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angle of repose

Summary

angle of repose ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (164 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • angle of repose's image is recorded as Angleofrepose.png[2].
  • angle of repose's GND ID is recorded as 4233888-8[3].
  • angle of repose's subclass of is recorded as slope[4].
  • angle of repose's Commons category is recorded as Angle of repose[5].
  • angle of repose's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02kspz[6].
  • angle of repose's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/angle-of-repose-mechanics[7].
  • angle of repose's ISQ dimension is recorded as 1[8].
  • angle of repose's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 151995515[9].
  • angle of repose's Wolfram Language quantity ID is recorded as AngleOfRepose[10].
  • angle of repose's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C151995515[11].

Why It Matters

angle of repose ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (164 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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