prolate spheroid

rotationally symmetric ellipsoid having a polar axis longer than the diameter of the equatorial circle whose plane bisects it
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prolate spheroid

Summary

prolate spheroid ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (77 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • prolate spheroid's image is recorded as ProlateSpheroid.png[2].
  • prolate spheroid's image is recorded as Prolate Spheroid Quadric.png[3].
  • prolate spheroid's subclass of is recorded as spheroid[4].
  • prolate spheroid's opposite of is recorded as oblate spheroid[5].
  • prolate spheroid's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0283mh6[6].
  • prolate spheroid's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0180686[7].
  • prolate spheroid's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/prolate-spheroid[8].
  • prolate spheroid's has characteristic is recorded as elongation[9].
  • prolate spheroid's studied by is recorded as geometry[10].
  • prolate spheroid's BabelNet ID is recorded as 03824376n[11].
  • prolate spheroid's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1q5gjndh2[12].
  • prolate spheroid's MathWorld ID is recorded as ProlateSpheroid[13].
  • prolate spheroid's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[14].
  • prolate spheroid's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 197807790[15].
  • prolate spheroid's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as esferoide-prolat[16].

Why It Matters

prolate spheroid ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (77 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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