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 (655 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • flying buttress's subclass of is recorded as ramping arch[2].
  • flying buttress's subclass of is recorded as buttress[3].
  • flying buttress's Commons category is recorded as Flying buttresses[4].
  • flying buttress's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/027lyl[5].
  • flying buttress's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Flying buttresses[6].
  • flying buttress's Commons gallery is recorded as Arc-boutant[7].
  • flying buttress's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300000905[8].
  • flying buttress's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0080224[9].
  • flying buttress's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0160306[10].
  • flying buttress's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[11].
  • flying buttress's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • flying buttress's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13].
  • flying buttress's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/flying-buttress[14].
  • flying buttress's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as flying-buttresses[15].
  • flying buttress's Thesaurus for Graphic Materials ID is recorded as tgm004153[16].
  • flying buttress's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 75368297[17].
  • flying buttress's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as arkbutan-4d6186[18].
  • flying buttress's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as arcbotant-0[19].
  • flying buttress's Vikidia article ID is recorded as fr:Arc-boutant[20].

Why It Matters

flying buttress ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (655 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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