joist

horizontal structural element transferring load from flooring to beams, typically running perpendicular to beams
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joist

Summary

joist ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (245 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • joist's image is recorded as Copped Hall ceiling joists and beams, Epping, Essex, England.jpg[2].
  • joist's physically interacts with is recorded as beam[3].
  • joist's physically interacts with is recorded as flooring[4].
  • joist's physically interacts with is recorded as floor beam[5].
  • joist's subclass of is recorded as beam[6].
  • joist's subclass of is recorded as bent component[7].
  • joist's Commons category is recorded as Joists[8].
  • joist's said to be the same as is recorded as Bjälklag[9].
  • joist's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03w0_s[10].
  • joist's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300001544[11].
  • joist's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12].
  • joist's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/joist[13].
  • joist's different from is recorded as Q11820266[14].
  • joist's connects with is recorded as floor beam[15].
  • joist's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i55285[16].
  • joist's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2775926657[17].
  • joist's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 358[18].
  • joist's National Historical Museums of Sweden ID is recorded as term/89AFB270-B277-4ABB-8CB6-917A8C6A0D5C[19].
  • joist's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2775926657[20].

Why It Matters

joist ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (245 views/month).[1] joist has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

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

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). joist. Retrieved April 11, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/joist
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_joist_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{joist}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/joist}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-11}}
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