ballast

material that is used to provide stability to a vehicle or structure
Product material Q4851537
ballast
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ballast

Summary

ballast is a material[1]. ballast draws 239 Wikipedia views per month (material category, ranking #23 of 82).[2]

Key Facts

  • ballast's image is recorded as Ballast tank boat cross section.png[3].
  • ballast's instance of is recorded as material[4].
  • ballast's subclass of is recorded as mechanism[5].
  • ballast's subclass of is recorded as weight[6].
  • ballast's has use is recorded as water transport[7].
  • ballast's has use is recorded as aviation[8].
  • ballast's Commons category is recorded as Ballast[9].
  • ballast's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0r4jyx6[10].
  • ballast's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300014706[11].
  • ballast's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[12].
  • ballast's different from is recorded as Ballast[13].
  • ballast's different from is recorded as sailing ballast[14].
  • ballast's PACTOLS thesaurus ID is recorded as pcrtzk48fwc88tvdtnbbccr7[15].
  • ballast's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as ballast_-_skipsfart[16].
  • ballast's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 125907379[17].
  • ballast's Yle topic ID is recorded as 18-354577[18].
  • ballast's Lex ID is recorded as ballast_-_på_skib[19].
  • ballast's National Historical Museums of Sweden ID is recorded as term/8a7e99e1-7ce1-452f-a84f-fca111dc7a21[20].
  • ballast's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C125907379[21].
  • ballast's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as ballast-2f8d0e[22].
  • ballast's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 18662[23].

Why It Matters

ballast draws 239 Wikipedia views per month (material category, ranking #23 of 82).[2] ballast has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] ballast is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

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] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_ballast_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{ballast}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/ballast}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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