crank

mechanism where an arm attached to a rotating shaft by which circular motion is imparted to the shaft
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crank
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crank

Summary

crank ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (176 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • crank's image is recorded as Manovella1.jpg[2].
  • crank's subclass of is recorded as simple machine[3].
  • crank's Commons category is recorded as Cranks[4].
  • crank's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/021_23[5].
  • crank's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph964184[6].
  • crank's spoken text audio is recorded as Nl-Zwengel-article.ogg[7].
  • crank's PSH ID is recorded as 10721[8].
  • crank's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9].
  • crank's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10].
  • crank's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/crank[11].
  • crank's Giant Bomb ID is recorded as 3055-1736[12].
  • crank's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 198994188[13].
  • crank's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 8913[14].
  • crank's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 03131675-n[15].
  • crank's National Historical Museums of Sweden ID is recorded as term/D2A6C8DB-2A6D-4218-8B68-1F2B5560AAE0[16].
  • crank's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C198994188[17].
  • crank's WikiKids ID is recorded as Zwengel[18].
  • crank's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 22349[19].

Why It Matters

crank ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (176 views/month).[1] crank has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] crank is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

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] . 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] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). crank. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/crank-q857558
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_crank-q857558_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{crank}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/crank-q857558}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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