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bow wave

wave that forms at the bow of a ship when it moves through the water
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bow wave

Summary

bow wave ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (50 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • bow wave's GND ID is recorded as 4660976-3[2].
  • bow wave's subclass of is recorded as ship wave[3].
  • bow wave's Commons category is recorded as Bow waves[4].
  • bow wave's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05mm1j[5].
  • bow wave's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/bow-wave[6].
  • bow wave's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 156814755[7].
  • bow wave's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C156814755[8].

Why It Matters

bow wave ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (50 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9]

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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). bow wave. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/bow-wave
MLA “bow wave.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/bow-wave.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_bow-wave_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{bow wave}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/bow-wave}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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