as the crow flies

idiom meaning the shortest distance between two points
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as the crow flies

Summary

as the crow flies is a minimum[1]. It draws 252 Wikipedia views per month (minimum category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • as the crow flies's image is recorded as Crow in flight.JPG[3].
  • as the crow flies's instance of is recorded as minimum[4].
  • as the crow flies's instance of is recorded as idiom[5].
  • as the crow flies's GND ID is recorded as 4775126-5[6].
  • as the crow flies's subclass of is recorded as arc length[7].
  • as the crow flies's subclass of is recorded as measure[8].
  • as the crow flies's subclass of is recorded as distance[9].
  • as the crow flies's has use is recorded as surveying[10].
  • as the crow flies's said to be the same as is recorded as great-circle distance[11].
  • as the crow flies's said to be the same as is recorded as Euclidean distance[12].
  • as the crow flies's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01rgc2[13].
  • as the crow flies's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2775940955[14].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for as the crow flies include As the Crow Flies[15], a television series[16], directed by Deniz Yorulmazer[17].

Why It Matters

as the crow flies draws 252 Wikipedia views per month (minimum category, ranking #1 of 2).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Entities named for it include As the Crow Flies[15], a television series[16], directed by Deniz Yorulmazer[17].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [15] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [16] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [17] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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