contraction

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contraction

Summary

contraction ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (318 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • contraction's image is recorded as Contraction-of-I-am.png[2].
  • contraction's subclass of is recorded as derivation[3].
  • contraction's subclass of is recorded as inflected form[4].
  • contraction's opposite of is recorded as expanded contraction[5].
  • contraction's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02t28r[6].
  • contraction's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Contractions[7].
  • contraction's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0171619[8].
  • contraction's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/contraction-abbreviation-technique[9].
  • contraction's main Wikidata property is recorded as P5238[10].
  • contraction's different from is recorded as Contraction[11].
  • contraction's different from is recorded as syncope[12].
  • contraction's different from is recorded as contraction[13].
  • contraction's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11h9whs9g0[14].
  • contraction's exact match is recorded as http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#contraction[15].
  • contraction's exact match is recorded as http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/2.0/lexinfo#contraction[16].
  • contraction's Quora topic ID is recorded as Contraction[17].
  • contraction's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as kontraksjon_-_språkvitenskap[18].
  • contraction's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 163415756[19].
  • contraction's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/13513[20].
  • contraction's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 축약형[21].
  • contraction's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C163415756[22].
  • contraction's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as stiazhenie-v-fonetike-3e0d6a[23].
  • contraction's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as contraccio-0[24].

Why It Matters

contraction ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (318 views/month).[1] contraction has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] contraction is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. 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.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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