movable type

system of printing and typography that uses movable components
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movable type

Summary

movable type ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (516 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • movable type's subclass of is recorded as printing[2].
  • movable type's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00565235[3].
  • movable type's Commons category is recorded as Printing letters[4].
  • movable type's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/025t6q5[5].
  • movable type's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph920025[6].
  • movable type's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Movable type[7].
  • movable type's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300195862[8].
  • movable type's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[9].
  • movable type's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/movable-type[10].
  • movable type's different from is recorded as Movable Type[11].
  • movable type's different from is recorded as C++ class[12].
  • movable type's uses is recorded as interchangeable parts[13].
  • movable type's Quora topic ID is recorded as Movable-Type[14].
  • movable type's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777661972[15].
  • movable type's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 214026[16].
  • movable type's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 57244[17].

Why It Matters

movable type ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (516 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  13. [14] . Quora. wikidata.org.
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  16. [17] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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