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silt

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silt

Summary

silt ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,343 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • silt is a type of sediment[2].
  • silt's Commons category is recorded as Silt[3].
  • silt's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Silt[4].
  • silt's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[5].
  • silt's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 12[6].
  • silt's different from is recorded as aleurite[7].
  • silt's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000016[8].

Body

Definition and Type

silt is a type of sediment[2].

Influence

Things named for silt include siltstone[9].

Why It Matters

silt ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,343 views/month).[1] silt has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] silt is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Entities named for silt include siltstone[9].

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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_silt_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{silt}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/silt}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · Horcrux · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ [[Property:P1810]]: LIMO, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1779097876633"
  2. 13d ago · Threecharlie · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 12
    Subclass of → —
    Different from → aleurite
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P4223]]: limo"
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