expansion joint

construction detail designed to absorb temperature-induced volume changes of construction parts
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expansion joint

Summary

expansion joint ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (225 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • expansion joint's subclass of is recorded as building joint[2].
  • expansion joint's Commons category is recorded as Expansion joints[3].
  • expansion joint's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dy3yq[4].
  • expansion joint's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300003379[5].
  • expansion joint's described by source is recorded as Kenchiku-gaku Yōgo Jiten (Dai 2-han)[6].
  • expansion joint's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as expansion-joints[7].
  • expansion joint's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 113024971[8].
  • expansion joint's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C113024971[9].
  • expansion joint's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as deformatsionnyi-shov-40daa0[10].

Why It Matters

expansion joint ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (225 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). expansion joint. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/expansion-joint
MLA “expansion joint.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/expansion-joint.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_expansion-joint_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{expansion joint}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/expansion-joint}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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