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breakwater

structure constructed on coasts as part of coastal management or to protect an anchorage
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breakwater

Summary

breakwater ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,004 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • breakwater is made of wave-dissipating concrete block[2].
  • breakwater is a type of fixed construction[3].
  • breakwater's Commons category is recorded as Breakwaters[4].
  • breakwater's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Breakwaters[5].
  • breakwater's Commons gallery is recorded as Breakwater[6].
  • breakwater's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as man_made=breakwater[7].
  • breakwater's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • breakwater's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[9].
  • breakwater's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition[10].
  • breakwater's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[11].
  • breakwater's different from is recorded as groyne at beach[12].
  • breakwater's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13].

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Definition and Type

breakwater is a type of fixed construction[3].

Why It Matters

breakwater ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,004 views/month).[1] breakwater has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] breakwater is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . 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.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → groyne at beach
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Breakwaters
    Local thumb → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 26021, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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