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platoon

military unit size class
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Summary

platoon is a military unit size class[1]. platoon draws 7,057 Wikipedia views per month (military unit size class category, ranking #6 of 28).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: size-specific military unit[3]
  • Part of: company[4]
  • Commons category: Platoons[5]
  • Inception: 1547[6]
  • Commons gallery: Platoon[7]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Sytin Military Encyclopedia[10], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[11], Otto's encyclopedia[12], APP-6C: NATO Joint Military Symbology[13], National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan[14]

Why It Matters

platoon has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] platoon is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . merriam-webster.com. merriam-webster.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subject lexeme → {'id': 'L307891', 'numeric-id': 307891, 'entity-type': 'lexe
    Subclass of → size-specific military unit
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 22577, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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