balance wheel

central part of the mechanism driving mechanical clocks and watches
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balance wheel

Summary

balance wheel ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (161 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • balance wheel's image is recorded as Watch balance spring and human hair.jpg[2].
  • balance wheel's image is recorded as 321 balance a.jpg[3].
  • balance wheel's GND ID is recorded as 4570318-8[4].
  • balance wheel's subclass of is recorded as timepiece component[5].
  • balance wheel's Commons category is recorded as Balance wheels[6].
  • balance wheel's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 40319[7].
  • balance wheel's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/056jh0[8].
  • balance wheel's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300202351[9].
  • balance wheel's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 681.112[10].
  • balance wheel's different from is recorded as color balance[11].
  • balance wheel's defining formula is recorded as T = 2 \pi \sqrt{ \frac {I}{\kappa} } \,[12].
  • balance wheel's defining formula is recorded as T = 2 \pi \sqrt{ \frac {I}{\kappa} }[13].
  • balance wheel's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[14].
  • balance wheel's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 85478520[15].
  • balance wheel's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 02780407-n[16].
  • balance wheel's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 42172[17].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for balance wheel include Unrest[18], a film[19], directed by Cyril Schäublin[20].

Why It Matters

balance wheel ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (161 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Entities named for it include Unrest[18], a film[19], directed by Cyril Schäublin[20].

References

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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] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [18] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [19] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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