flamethrower

mechanical incendiary device designed to project a long controllable stream of fire
Product weapon_type Q45183
flamethrower
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flamethrower

Summary

flamethrower is a weapon type[1]. flamethrower ranks in the top 10% of weapon_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (753 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • flamethrower's image is recorded as Flamethrower in Vietnam.jpg[3].
  • flamethrower's instance of is recorded as weapon type[4].
  • flamethrower's GND ID is recorded as 4410341-4[5].
  • flamethrower's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85048986[6].
  • flamethrower's subclass of is recorded as incendiary weapon[7].
  • flamethrower's subclass of is recorded as physical tool[8].
  • flamethrower's Commons category is recorded as Flamethrowers[9].
  • flamethrower's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 49146[10].
  • flamethrower's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0jb9v[11].
  • flamethrower's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Flamethrowers[12].
  • flamethrower's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300201517[13].
  • flamethrower's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 623.445[14].
  • flamethrower's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10664823[15].
  • flamethrower's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0232287[16].
  • flamethrower's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/flame-thrower[17].
  • flamethrower's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/Flammenwerfer[18].
  • flamethrower's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2288077[19].
  • flamethrower's Treccani ID is recorded as lanciafiamme[20].
  • flamethrower's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as flame-throwers[21].
  • flamethrower's MIL-STD-2525 Symbol Identification Code is recorded as 10011500001104000000[22].
  • flamethrower's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as flammekaster[23].
  • flamethrower's Thesaurus for Graphic Materials ID is recorded as tgm012175[24].
  • flamethrower's Giant Bomb ID is recorded as 3055-45[25].
  • flamethrower's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 50291824[26].
  • flamethrower's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 8243[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for flamethrower include Liekinheitin[28], a musical work/composition[29].

Why It Matters

flamethrower ranks in the top 10% of weapon_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (753 views/month).[2] flamethrower has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] flamethrower is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for flamethrower include Liekinheitin[28], a musical work/composition[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . tesauromuseus.com.br. Retrieved . tesauromuseus.com.br. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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