precession

periodic change in the direction of a rotation axis
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precession
Lucas Vieira · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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precession

Summary

precession ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (608 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • precession's image is recorded as Gyroscope precession.gif[2].
  • precession's GND ID is recorded as 4273710-2[3].
  • precession's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85106202[4].
  • precession's subclass of is recorded as rotation[5].
  • precession's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00570022[6].
  • precession's part of is recorded as classical mechanics[7].
  • precession's Commons category is recorded as Precession[8].
  • precession's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/065m8[9].
  • precession's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Precession[10].
  • precession's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • precession's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/precession[12].
  • precession's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 3176619[13].
  • precession's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as precession-et-nutation[14].
  • precession's Quora topic ID is recorded as Precession[15].
  • precession's Cultureel Woordenboek ID is recorded as natuurkunde-scheikunde-en-sterrenkunde/precessie[16].
  • precession's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as precession[17].
  • precession's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as presesjon_-_mekanikk[18].
  • precession's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[19].
  • precession's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 81502235[20].
  • precession's Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID is recorded as precesija[21].
  • precession's Lex ID is recorded as præcession[22].
  • precession's KBpedia ID is recorded as Precession-Action[23].
  • precession's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 14029213-n[24].
  • precession's MetaSat ID is recorded as precession[25].
  • precession's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C81502235[26].

Why It Matters

precession ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (608 views/month).[1] precession has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] precession is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  14. [15] . Quora. wikidata.org.
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  22. [23] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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