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pedal

foot-actuated lever used to control, power, or otherwise operate machinery
Class type of: lever, machine element, human power Q1231985

Facts

6 properties

Identity

Instance of
user interface
More facts +5
Subclass of
lever, machine element, human power[3][4][5]
Described by source
Otto's encyclopedia[6]
Different from
Pedal[7]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies[8]
Physically interacts with
human foot[2]
🏷️ Also known as
en foot pedal en pedal ar دواسة cs pedál fa پدال fr pedale fr pédale fr pédalier he דוושה ja ペダル ko 발판 ko 페달 nl pedaal pl pedał ru педали ru педаль zh 腳掣 zh-hant 踏板
🔖 Identifiers · 6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Weissenau Holzhey-Orgel Pedal.jpg ↗
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/14
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/121qmc5w
Lex ID
pedal
Topic's main category
Category:Pedals
WikiKids ID
Pedaal

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🔗 Connections
Subtypes 6
bicycle pedal, swell, effects pedal, Crescendo pedal, automobile pedal, footmouse
Belongs to 3
velomobile, velocipede, elliptical trainer
Subclass of 3
lever, machine element, human power
Examples 2
expression pedal, brake pedal
Instance of 1
user interface
Topic's main category 1
Category:Pedals
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Pedals
← Input device 1
Hard Truck 2: King of the Road
← Powered by 1
human powered quadricycle
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Summary

pedal is a user interface[1].

Related Entities

automobile pedal brake pedal footmouse swell

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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
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