great-circle distance

Summary

great-circle distance ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (568 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• great-circle distance's image is recorded as Illustration of great-circle distance.svg^[2].
• great-circle distance's subclass of is recorded as length^[3].
• great-circle distance's subclass of is recorded as measure^[4].
• great-circle distance's subclass of is recorded as distance^[5].
• great-circle distance's subclass of is recorded as physical quantity^[6].
• great-circle distance's has use is recorded as surveying^[7].
• great-circle distance's Commons category is recorded as Great circle^[8].
• great-circle distance's said to be the same as is recorded as as the crow flies^[9].
• great-circle distance's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/021fdz^[10].
• great-circle distance's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0128346^[11].
• great-circle distance's MathWorld ID is recorded as SphericalDistance^[12].
• great-circle distance's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2695098^[13].
• great-circle distance's ISQ dimension is recorded as \mathsf{L}^[14].
• great-circle distance's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics^[15].
• great-circle distance's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 128541587^[16].
• great-circle distance's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3951984^[17].
• great-circle distance's quantity symbol is recorded as d^[18].
• great-circle distance's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as ortodromia-1^[19].

Why It Matters

great-circle distance ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (568 views/month).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[20] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[21]