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ball valve

quarter-turn valve which uses a hollow, perforated and pivoting ball to control fluid flow
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ball valve

Summary

ball valve ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (179 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • ball valve's image is recorded as Ball Valve.jpg[2].
  • ball valve's subclass of is recorded as valve[3].
  • ball valve's Commons category is recorded as Ball valves[4].
  • ball valve's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02wv_k[5].
  • ball valve's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300163154[6].
  • ball valve's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00008152n[7].
  • ball valve's icon is recorded as Valve, globe type - ISO 10628-2.svg[8].
  • ball valve's icon is recorded as Valve, angle globe type - ISO 10628-2.svg[9].
  • ball valve's icon is recorded as Valve, three way globe type - ISO 10628-2.svg[10].
  • ball valve's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i50415[11].
  • ball valve's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 90610171[12].
  • ball valve's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 02786482-n[13].
  • ball valve's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C90610171[14].

Why It Matters

ball valve ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (179 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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