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flashlight

portable, hand-held electric light
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Summary

flashlight ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,243 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: portable light source[2], product[3], appliance[4]
  • Has use: visual perception[5]
  • Commons category: Flashlights[6]
  • Unicode character: 🔦[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Flashlights[8]
  • Commons gallery: Flashlight[9]
  • Has effect: lighting[10]
  • Has characteristic: portability[11]
  • Different from: torch[12], blinking light[13]

Why It Matters

flashlight has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] flashlight is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

product

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . tesauromuseus.com.br. Retrieved . tesauromuseus.com.br. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . 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.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C4812
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Verbaalpina id: C4812, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  2. 11w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Objects/Flashlight
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Objects/Flashlight, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
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