mask

any full or partial face covering, whether ceremonial, protective, decorative, or used as disguise
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mask

Summary

mask ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,116 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • mask's depicts is recorded as face[2].
  • mask is a type of clothing[3].
  • mask is a type of artificial physical object[4].
  • mask's Commons category is recorded as Masks[5].
  • mask's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Masks[6].
  • mask's Commons gallery is recorded as Mask[7].
  • mask's depicted by is recorded as Mosaico policromo a cassettoni con Nike e maschere[8].
  • mask's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[9].
  • mask's described by source is recorded as Paulyโ€“Wissowa[10].
  • mask's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[11].
  • mask's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926โ€“1947)[12].
  • mask's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • mask's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • mask's described by source is recorded as Encyclopรฆdia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • mask's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885โ€“1890)[16].
  • mask's described by source is recorded as Internetowa encyklopedia PWN[17].
  • mask's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[18].
  • mask's different from is recorded as Mask[19].
  • mask's different from is recorded as Masque[20].
  • mask's different from is recorded as Mascara[21].
  • mask's different from is recorded as Maska[22].
  • mask's different from is recorded as Grima[23].
  • mask's different from is recorded as Maschera[24].
  • mask's different from is recorded as Q30944057[25].
  • mask's practiced by is recorded as mask maker[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include clothing[3] and artificial physical object[4].

Influence

Things named for mask include masking[27], a human behavior[28]; smile mask syndrome[29]; and prosopite[30], a mineral species[31].

Why It Matters

mask ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,116 views/month).[1] mask has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] mask is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for mask include masking[27], a human behavior[28]; smile mask syndrome[29]; and prosopite[30], a mineral species[31].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] โ†‘ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] โ†‘ . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] โ†‘ . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] โ†‘ . wikidata.org. โ†’ on this site
  2. [29] โ†‘ . wikidata.org. โ†’ on this site
  3. [30] โ†‘ . wikidata.org. โ†’ on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] โ†‘ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. โ†’ on this site
  2. [31] โ†‘ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. โ†’ on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] โ†‘ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] โ†‘ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] โ†‘ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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