hail

type of precipitation formed out of ice
Thing type_of_meteorological_phenomenon Q37602
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hail

Summary

hail is a type of meteorological phenomenon[1]. hail draws 1,015 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_meteorological_phenomenon category, ranking #8 of 22).[2]

Key Facts

  • hail's image is recorded as Grêle.jpg[3].
  • hail's image is recorded as A field of hailstones.jpg[4].
  • hail's instance of is recorded as type of meteorological phenomenon[5].
  • hail's GND ID is recorded as 4158757-1[6].
  • hail's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85058299[7].
  • hail's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119408017[8].
  • hail's subclass of is recorded as precipitation[9].
  • hail's Commons category is recorded as Hail[10].
  • hail's color is recorded as white[11].
  • hail's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 7028[12].
  • hail's has part is recorded as hailstone[13].
  • hail's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03rby[14].
  • hail's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph520038[15].
  • hail's has cause is recorded as atmospheric convection[16].
  • hail's has cause is recorded as cumulonimbus[17].
  • hail's HDS ID is recorded as 007779[18].
  • hail's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Hail[19].
  • hail's Commons gallery is recorded as Hail[20].
  • hail's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300055376[21].
  • hail's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 551.554[22].
  • hail's PSH ID is recorded as 13450[23].
  • hail's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10637281[24].
  • hail's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1707[25].
  • hail's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0130468[26].
  • hail's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0087112[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for hail include Collatz conjecture[28], a conjecture[29].

Why It Matters

hail draws 1,015 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_meteorological_phenomenon category, ranking #8 of 22).[2] hail has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] hail is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for hail include Collatz conjecture[28], a conjecture[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Library of Congress. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . glossary.ametsoc.org. glossary.ametsoc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . glossary.ametsoc.org. glossary.ametsoc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . glossary.ametsoc.org. glossary.ametsoc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20d ago · Nat (WDU) · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of precipitation
    Has part(s) hailstone
    Decomposition point {'unit': 'Q25267', 'amount': '+0'}
    Instance of
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    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/29431|batch #29431]]: UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID for extreme weather events"
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