sill

A tabular sheet intrusion that has intruded between older layers of sedimentary rock, beds of volcanic lava or tuff, or along the direction of foliation in metamorphic rock
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sill

Summary

sill ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (44 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • sill's image is recorded as Edinburgh Salisbury Crags 2004-05-18.jpg[2].
  • sill's subclass of is recorded as igneous intrusion[3].
  • sill's Commons category is recorded as Volcanoes[4].
  • sill's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/046dt1[5].
  • sill's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sills (geology)[6].
  • sill's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[7].
  • sill's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/sill[8].
  • sill's GeoNames feature code is recorded as U.SILU[9].
  • sill's Environment Ontology ID is recorded as 01000737[10].
  • sill's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as sill[11].
  • sill's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 40201923[12].
  • sill's KBpedia ID is recorded as Sill-TerrainFeature[13].
  • sill's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 09458136-n[14].
  • sill's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C40201923[15].
  • sill's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 65249[16].
  • sill's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as sill-28962f[17].

Why It Matters

sill ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (44 views/month).[1] sill has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] sill is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . KBpedia. Retrieved . 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.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). sill. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/sill
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_sill_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{sill}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/sill}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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