deadweight

measurement of a ship's weight-carrying capacity, measured as the difference between light and loaded conditions
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deadweight

Summary

deadweight is a nautical term[1]. deadweight ranks in the top 9% of nautical_term entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (619 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • deadweight's instance of is recorded as nautical term[3].
  • deadweight's subclass of is recorded as payload capacity[4].
  • deadweight's subclass of is recorded as ship measurement[5].
  • deadweight's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03w95ch[6].
  • deadweight's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/deadweight-tonnage[7].
  • deadweight's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/deadweight[8].
  • deadweight's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'tdw'}[9].
  • deadweight's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'dwt'}[10].
  • deadweight's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'tpl'}[11].
  • deadweight's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'TDWAT'}[12].
  • deadweight's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'T dwat'}[13].
  • deadweight's ISQ dimension is recorded as \mathsf{M}[14].
  • deadweight's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as dwt._-_dødvekttonn[15].
  • deadweight's Wolfram Language quantity ID is recorded as DeadweightTonnage[16].
  • deadweight's Lex ID is recorded as dødvægt[17].
  • deadweight's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 53163[18].
  • deadweight's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as dedveit-4f33ff[19].

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Designation and Status

deadweight's instance of is recorded as nautical term[3].

Why It Matters

deadweight ranks in the top 9% of nautical_term entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (619 views/month).[2] deadweight has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] deadweight is known by 36 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

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

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