sleep

Summary

sleep is a biological process^[1]. sleep ranks in the top 2% of biological_process entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,449 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• sleep's instance of is recorded as biological process^[3].
• sleep's instance of is recorded as state of consciousness^[4].
• sleep was followed by awakening^[5].
• sleep is a type of multicellular organismal process^[6].
• sleep is a type of behavior^[7].
• sleep's Commons category is recorded as Sleeping^[8].
• sleep is the opposite of wakefulness^[9].
• sleep's Unicode character is recorded as 💤^[10].
• sleep's Unicode character is recorded as 🛌^[11].
• sleep's Unicode character is recorded as 😴^[12].
• sleep's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sleep^[13].
• sleep's facet of is recorded as health^[14].
• sleep's depicted by is recorded as The Sleeper^[15].
• sleep's depicted by is recorded as The Sleeping woman^[16].
• sleep's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[17].
• sleep's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[18].
• sleep's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language^[19].
• sleep's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary^[20].
• sleep's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng^[21].
• sleep's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic^[22].
• sleep's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[23].
• sleep's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana^[24].
• sleep's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[25].
• sleep's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge^[26].
• sleep's partially coincident with is recorded as rest^[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include biological process^[3] and state of consciousness^[4]. Recorded subclass of include multicellular organismal process^[6] and behavior^[7]. sleep is the opposite of wakefulness^[9].

Influence

Things named for sleep include Sleep^[28], a musical group^[29], founded in 1990^[30]; Gliridae^[31], a taxon^[32]; Tahajjud^[33], a salah^[34], founded in 0631^[35], written by God in Islam^[36]; and Palus Somni^[37], a palus^[38].

Why It Matters

sleep ranks in the top 2% of biological_process entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,449 views/month).^[2] sleep has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[39] sleep is known by 73 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[40]

Entities named for sleep include Sleep^[28], a musical group^[29], founded in 1990^[30]; Gliridae^[31], a taxon^[32]; Tahajjud^[33], a salah^[34], founded in 0631^[35], written by God in Islam^[36]; and Palus Somni^[37], a palus^[38].