colony-forming unit

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colony-forming unit

Summary

colony-forming unit is an unit of measurement[1]. It draws 212 Wikipedia views per month (unit_of_measurement category, ranking #23 of 115).[2]

Key Facts

  • colony-forming unit's instance of is recorded as unit of measurement[3].
  • colony-forming unit's part of is recorded as microbiology[4].
  • colony-forming unit's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bd5wk[5].
  • colony-forming unit's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11h_3t3b7h[6].
  • colony-forming unit's unit symbol is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'CFU'}[7].
  • colony-forming unit's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 192285135[8].
  • colony-forming unit's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2910689832[9].
  • colony-forming unit's Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID is recorded as colonyFormingUnit[10].
  • colony-forming unit's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C192285135[11].

Why It Matters

colony-forming unit draws 212 Wikipedia views per month (unit_of_measurement category, ranking #23 of 115).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). colony-forming unit. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/colony-forming-unit
MLA “colony-forming unit.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/colony-forming-unit.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_colony-forming-unit_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{colony-forming unit}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/colony-forming-unit}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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