ocean current

continuous flow of ocean water
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ocean current
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ocean current

Summary

ocean current ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,729 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • ocean current is a type of current[2].
  • ocean current is a type of natural geographic object[3].
  • ocean current is a type of fluid mechanics[4].
  • ocean current is part of ocean[5].
  • ocean current is part of sea[6].
  • ocean current's Commons category is recorded as Ocean currents[7].
  • ocean current's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ocean currents[8].
  • ocean current's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[9].
  • ocean current's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • ocean current's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • ocean current's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • ocean current's topic has template is recorded as Template:Ocean[13].
  • ocean current's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox ocean current[14].
  • ocean current's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000147[15].
  • ocean current's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[16].
  • ocean current's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Q140249898[17].
  • ocean current's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Fluid dynamics[18].
  • ocean current's characteristic of is recorded as sea water[19].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include current[2], natural geographic object[3], and fluid mechanics[4].

Use and Application

Part of include ocean[5] and sea[6].

Why It Matters

ocean current ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,729 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 115 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX526666
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P950]]: XX526666"
  2. 7w ago · TextworkerBot bot · 2026-08-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1343]]: [[Q4532138]], moved from ruwikisource"
  3. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → ocean-currents
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: ocean-currents, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289956310|ocean currents (#289956310)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's "
  4. 15w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4, Q140249898
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
  5. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0450057-morske-proudy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0450057-morske-proudy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259492|batch #259492]]"
  6. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 16780, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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