hourglass

Summary

hourglass ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (702 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• hourglass's image is recorded as Wooden hourglass 3.jpg^[2].
• hourglass's image is recorded as Sand Clock.jpg^[3].
• hourglass's image is recorded as 3 Hourglasses Wellcome L0011331.jpg^[4].
• hourglass's GND ID is recorded as 4491371-0^[5].
• hourglass's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85062528^[6].
• hourglass's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11971610h^[7].
• hourglass's subclass of is recorded as timepiece^[8].
• hourglass's subclass of is recorded as timepiece^[9].
• hourglass's has use is recorded as chronometry^[10].
• hourglass's Commons category is recorded as Hourglasses^[11].
• hourglass's Unicode character is recorded as ⌛^[12].
• hourglass's Unicode character is recorded as ⏳^[13].
• hourglass's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 68949^[14].
• hourglass's has part is recorded as ampoule^[15].
• hourglass's has part is recorded as granular material^[16].
• hourglass's source of energy is recorded as gravity^[17].
• hourglass's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bmr5v^[18].
• hourglass's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Hourglasses^[19].
• hourglass's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300198626^[20].
• hourglass's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300206197^[21].
• hourglass's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 681.111^[22].
• hourglass's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 625861^[23].
• hourglass's Iconclass notation is recorded as 23U22^[24].
• hourglass's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0154155^[25].
• hourglass's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[26].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for hourglass include Hourglass Nebula^[27], a planetary nebula^[28] and Hourglass Lake^[29], a lake^[30].

Why It Matters

hourglass ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (702 views/month).^[1] hourglass has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[31] hourglass is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[32]

Entities named for hourglass include Hourglass Nebula^[27], a planetary nebula^[28] and Hourglass Lake^[29], a lake^[30].