great circle
intersection of the sphere and a plane which passes through the center point of the sphere
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Summary
great circle ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (360 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- great circle's image is recorded as Great circle hemispheres.png[2].
- great circle's subclass of is recorded as circle of a sphere[3].
- great circle's subclass of is recorded as closed geodesic[4].
- great circle's subclass of is recorded as plane–sphere intersection[5].
- great circle's opposite of is recorded as small circle[6].
- great circle's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cwv_[7].
- great circle's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Great circle[8].
- great circle's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9].
- great circle's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/great-circle[10].
- great circle's studied by is recorded as geodesy[11].
- great circle's MathWorld ID is recorded as GreatCircle[12].
- great circle's NE.se ID is recorded as storcirkel[13].
- great circle's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as great-circles[14].
- great circle's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[15].
- great circle's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i82055[16].
- great circle's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[17].
- great circle's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 148189969[18].
- great circle's ProofWiki ID is recorded as Definition:Great_Circle[19].
- great circle's Lex ID is recorded as storcirkel[20].
- great circle's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C148189969[21].
Why It Matters
great circle ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (360 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]