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loud noise-making device
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siren

Summary

siren ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,672 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • siren is named after siren[2].
  • siren is a type of interruptive free aerophone[3].
  • siren is a type of sound generator[4].
  • siren is used for alarm device[5].
  • siren's Commons category is recorded as Warning sirens[6].
  • siren's country of origin is recorded as Scotland[7].
  • 1799 marks the founding of siren[8].
  • siren's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sirens (alarms)[9].
  • siren's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as emergency=siren[10].
  • siren's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • siren's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[12].
  • siren's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • siren's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 412.21[14].
  • siren's different from is recorded as Siren[15].
  • siren's different from is recorded as Sirene[16].
  • siren's different from is recorded as Sirena[17].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include interruptive free aerophone[3] and sound generator[4].

Origins

siren is named after siren[2]. 1799 marks the founding of siren[8].

Use and Application

siren is used for alarm device[5].

Why It Matters

siren ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,672 views/month).[1] siren has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] siren is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

Scotland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . 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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  1. 5w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q5377
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