pontoon bridge

bridge that uses floats or shallow-draft boats for support (temporary or permanent)
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pontoon bridge
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pontoon bridge

Summary

pontoon bridge ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (574 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • pontoon bridge's image is recorded as Pontoon bridge Rhine River 1945.jpg[2].
  • pontoon bridge's image is recorded as Evergreen Point Floating Bridge - looking east from bike trail at west high-rise.jpg[3].
  • pontoon bridge's made from material is recorded as pontoon[4].
  • pontoon bridge's main building contractor is recorded as pontonier[5].
  • pontoon bridge's main building contractor is recorded as pontonier unit[6].
  • pontoon bridge's subclass of is recorded as bridge[7].
  • pontoon bridge's subclass of is recorded as architectural structure[8].
  • pontoon bridge's has use is recorded as military bridge[9].
  • pontoon bridge's Commons category is recorded as Pontoon bridges[10].
  • pontoon bridge's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 46414[11].
  • pontoon bridge's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/021gxj[12].
  • pontoon bridge's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Pontoon bridges[13].
  • pontoon bridge's Commons gallery is recorded as Pontoon bridge[14].
  • pontoon bridge's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300007849[15].
  • pontoon bridge's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10647467[16].
  • pontoon bridge's Iconclass notation is recorded as 45E511[17].
  • pontoon bridge's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as bridge:structure=floating[18].
  • pontoon bridge's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[19].
  • pontoon bridge's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[20].
  • pontoon bridge's described by source is recorded as The American Cyclopædia[21].
  • pontoon bridge's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[22].
  • pontoon bridge's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[23].
  • pontoon bridge's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/pontoon-bridge[24].
  • pontoon bridge's uses is recorded as pontoon[25].
  • pontoon bridge's has list is recorded as list of pontoon bridges[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for pontoon bridge include Funabashi[27], a core city of Japan[28], in Japan[29], founded in 1937[30].

Why It Matters

pontoon bridge ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (574 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for it include Funabashi[27], a core city of Japan[28], in Japan[29], founded in 1937[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] . OpenStreetMap Wiki. Retrieved . wiki.openstreetmap.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
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  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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