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arête

narrow ridge of rock
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arête

Summary

arête ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (434 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • arête is a type of back of a mountain[2].
  • arête's Commons category is recorded as Arêtes[3].
  • arête is the opposite of dihedral[4].
  • arête's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Arêtes[5].
  • arête's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as natural=arete[6].
  • arête's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[7].
  • arête's different from is recorded as Hrań[8].
  • arête's different from is recorded as ridge[9].
  • arête's different from is recorded as ridge section[10].

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Definition and Type

arête is a type of back of a mountain[2]. arête is the opposite of dihedral[4].

Why It Matters

arête ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (434 views/month).[1] arête has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] arête is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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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. 5w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Opposite of → dihedral
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → back of a mountain
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007402008705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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