ocean

Summary

ocean ranks in the top 0.22% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,633 views/month, #169 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• ocean is a type of natural geographic object^[2].
• ocean is a type of body of water^[3].
• ocean is a type of marine water body^[4].
• ocean is a type of saline water body^[5].
• ocean's Commons category is recorded as Oceans^[6].
• ocean is the opposite of continent^[7].
• ocean comprises sea water^[8].
• ocean comprises sea^[9].
• ocean comprises adjacent sea^[10].
• ocean's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Oceans^[11].
• ocean's Commons gallery is recorded as Atlas of the Oceans^[12].
• ocean's described at URL is recorded as https://www.whosonfirst.org/docs/placetypes/#ocean^[13].
• ocean's quantity is recorded as {'amount': '+5'}^[14].
• ocean's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Oceans^[15].
• ocean's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[16].
• ocean's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[17].
• ocean's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary^[18].
• ocean's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[19].
• ocean's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[20].
• ocean's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language^[21].
• ocean's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox body of water^[22].
• ocean's equivalent class is recorded as http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Ocean^[23].
• ocean's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/OceanBodyOfWater^[24].
• ocean's different from is recorded as Samudera^[25].
• ocean's different from is recorded as Océan^[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include natural geographic object^[2], body of water^[3], marine water body^[4], and saline water body^[5]. ocean is the opposite of continent^[7].

Use and Application

Components include sea water^[8], a solution^[27]; sea^[9]; and adjacent sea^[10].

Influence

Things named for ocean include hycean planet^[28], an astronomical object type^[29]; Kaiyodo^[30], a business^[31], in Japan^[32], founded in 1964^[33], headquartered in Kadoma^[34]; and Ocean Avenue^[35], a street^[36], in United States^[37].

Why It Matters

ocean ranks in the top 0.22% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,633 views/month, #169 of 77,819).^[1] ocean has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[38] ocean is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[39]

Entities named for ocean include hycean planet^[28], an astronomical object type^[29]; Kaiyodo^[30], a business^[31], in Japan^[32], founded in 1964^[33], headquartered in Kadoma^[34]; and Ocean Avenue^[35], a street^[36], in United States^[37].