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rip current

narrow current of water which moves directly away from the shore, cutting through the lines of breaking waves
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rip current
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rip current

Summary

rip current ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (677 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • rip current's image is recorded as Backcomp.gif[2].
  • rip current's subclass of is recorded as ocean current[3].
  • rip current's Commons category is recorded as Rip currents[4].
  • rip current's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01thm3[5].
  • rip current's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/rip-current[6].
  • rip current's Quora topic ID is recorded as Rip-Current[7].
  • rip current's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Fluid dynamics[8].
  • rip current's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 166482635[9].
  • rip current's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/15429[10].
  • rip current's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 07419184-n[11].
  • rip current's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C166482635[12].

Why It Matters

rip current ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (677 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). rip current. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/rip-current
MLA “rip current.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/rip-current.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_rip-current_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{rip current}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/rip-current}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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