leeway

physics term; amount of drift motion to leeward of an object floating in the water caused by the component of the wind vector that is perpendicular to the object’s forward motion
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leeway

Summary

leeway is a physics term[1]. leeway draws 56 Wikipedia views per month (physics_term category, ranking #13 of 16).[2]

Key Facts

  • leeway's instance of is recorded as physics term[3].
  • leeway's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dbnj1[4].
  • leeway's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0154631[5].
  • leeway's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0154632[6].
  • leeway's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[7].
  • leeway's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/drift-physics[8].
  • leeway's Quora topic ID is recorded as Leeway[9].
  • leeway's Lex ID is recorded as afdrift[10].
  • leeway's KBpedia ID is recorded as Leeway[11].
  • leeway's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as abatiment-2[12].

Why It Matters

leeway draws 56 Wikipedia views per month (physics_term category, ranking #13 of 16).[2] leeway has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] leeway is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_leeway-q308462-2_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{leeway}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/leeway-q308462-2}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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