recoil

backward momentum of a gun when it is discharged
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recoil

Summary

recoil ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (152 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • recoil's image is recorded as Odrzut.png[2].
  • recoil's subclass of is recorded as motion[3].
  • recoil's Commons category is recorded as Recoil[4].
  • recoil's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 69866[5].
  • recoil's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01dyp7[6].
  • recoil's Universal Decimal Classification is recorded as 623.57[7].
  • recoil's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • recoil's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/recoil-weapon[9].
  • recoil's different from is recorded as muzzle rise[10].
  • recoil's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as rekyl[11].
  • recoil's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776668124[12].
  • recoil's Lex ID is recorded as rekyl[13].
  • recoil's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 07365354-n[14].
  • recoil's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2776668124[15].
  • recoil's handled, mitigated, or managed by is recorded as recoil pad[16].
  • recoil's handled, mitigated, or managed by is recorded as muzzle brake[17].
  • recoil's class of object is recorded as firearm[18].

Why It Matters

recoil ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (152 views/month).[1] recoil has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] recoil is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). recoil. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/recoil
MLA “recoil.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/recoil.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_recoil_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{recoil}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/recoil}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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