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atmospheric refraction

deviation of light or other electromagnetic wave from a straight line as it passes through the atmosphere
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atmospheric refraction

Summary

atmospheric refraction ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (211 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • atmospheric refraction's image is recorded as SB DouglasPreserve SunAtmosphericEffects 2017 cropped2.jpg[2].
  • atmospheric refraction's GND ID is recorded as 4143250-2[3].
  • atmospheric refraction's subclass of is recorded as refraction[4].
  • atmospheric refraction's subclass of is recorded as Q131655270[5].
  • atmospheric refraction's Commons category is recorded as Atmospheric refraction[6].
  • atmospheric refraction's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 5485[7].
  • atmospheric refraction's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05wmld[8].
  • atmospheric refraction's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 551.565[9].
  • atmospheric refraction's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as atmospheric-refraction[10].
  • atmospheric refraction's Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID is recorded as 115[11].
  • atmospheric refraction's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 13468771[12].
  • atmospheric refraction's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C13468771[13].
  • atmospheric refraction's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 56874[14].
  • atmospheric refraction's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 498324[15].

Why It Matters

atmospheric refraction ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (211 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_atmospheric-refraction_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{atmospheric refraction}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/atmospheric-refraction}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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