shaft

rotating machine element used to transmit power from one part to another
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shaft

Summary

shaft ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (59 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • shaft's image is recorded as Drive Shaft and Belts, Redbournbury Mill - geograph.org.uk - 1561145.jpg[2].
  • shaft's subclass of is recorded as machine element[3].
  • shaft's subclass of is recorded as rotor[4].
  • shaft's Commons category is recorded as Shafts (mechanics)[5].
  • shaft's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 40795[6].
  • shaft's has part is recorded as drive shaft[7].
  • shaft's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph121020[8].
  • shaft's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 621.823[9].
  • shaft's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • shaft's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11].
  • shaft's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[12].
  • shaft's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13].
  • shaft's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/shaft-machine-component[14].
  • shaft's different from is recorded as marine drive shaft[15].
  • shaft's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/12dpx9kyw[16].
  • shaft's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as aksel[17].
  • shaft's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 020658[18].
  • shaft's Lex ID is recorded as aksel[19].
  • shaft's KBpedia ID is recorded as TransmissionShaft[20].
  • shaft's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 04118284-n[21].
  • shaft's MetaSat ID is recorded as shaft[22].

Why It Matters

shaft ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (59 views/month).[1] shaft has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] shaft is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Q43476341. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Q43476341. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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