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flap

aircraft wing device used to increase lift by extending the trailing edge of the wing
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flap

Summary

flap ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (149 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • flap is a type of high-lift device[2].
  • flap is a type of aircraft component[3].
  • flap is part of wing[4].
  • flap's Commons category is recorded as Trailing-edge flaps[5].
  • flap's partially coincident with is recorded as flaperon[6].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include high-lift device[2] and aircraft component[3].

Use and Application

flap is part of wing[4].

Influence

Things named for flap include flaperon[7].

Why It Matters

flap ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (149 views/month).[1] flap has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] flap is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

Entities named for flap include flaperon[7].

Related Entities

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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] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Partially coincident with → flaperon
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → high-lift device, aircraft component
    Part of → wing
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007536038305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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