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flying buttress

ramping arch from the top of a wall to support a higher pier
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flying buttress

Summary

flying buttress ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,018 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • flying buttress is a type of ramping arch[2].
  • flying buttress is a type of buttress[3].
  • flying buttress's Commons category is recorded as Flying buttresses[4].
  • flying buttress's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Flying buttresses[5].
  • flying buttress's Commons gallery is recorded as Arc-boutant[6].
  • flying buttress's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[7].
  • flying buttress's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • flying buttress's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[9].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include ramping arch[2] and buttress[3].

Why It Matters

flying buttress ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,018 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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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.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . 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. 26d ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → ramping arch, buttress
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 1828758
    Described by source → Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
    Biblissima authority id → Q295803
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q295803, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
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