solid

solid matter; matter which does not deform easily under pressure
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Summary

solid is a fundamental state of matter[1]. solid draws 4,887 Wikipedia views per month (fundamental state of matter category, ranking #3 of 5).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: physical state[3]
  • Follows: liquid[4]
  • Subclass of: matter[5], continuum[6], amount of matter[7]
  • Commons category: Solids (matter)[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Solids[9], Q9734169[10]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11]
  • Manifestation of: solid state of matter[12]
  • Equivalent class: https://w3id.org/gso/1.0/common/Solid_Matter[13], http://purl.allotrope.org/ontologies/material#AFM_0000386[14]
  • Different from: solid figure[15], physical object[16], solid state of matter[17]
  • Studied by: solid-state physics[18], solid mechanics[19]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[20], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[21]
  • P14541: vAPcu[22]

Why It Matters

solid has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] solid is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Q141222183. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Q141142957. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

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

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Edit History

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. 7d ago · Infovarius · 2026-10-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → solid figure, physical object, solid state of matter
    Instance of → fundamental state of matter, physical state
    Follows → liquid
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ Follows: liquid"
  2. 9d ago · Fgnievinski · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Subclass of: continuum"
  3. 13d ago · Ottawajin · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gemet id → 7918
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', '
    Sitelink count → 141
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Gemet id: 7918, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/152602917|solid matter (#152602917)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5959|GEMET ID]] #mix'n'mat"
  4. 4w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → matter, continuum, amount of matter
    Equivalent class → https://w3id.org/gso/1.0/common/Solid_Matter, http://purl.allotrope.org/ontologies/material#AFM_0000386
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://purl.allotrope.org/ontologies/material#AFM_0000386"
  5. 6w ago · عُثمان · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → solid figure, physical object, solid state of matter
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Different from: Q141222939"
  6. 6w ago · عُثمان · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → solid figure, physical object, solid state of matter
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: Q141222939"
  7. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i116244
    P14541 → vAPcu
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  8. 17w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-06-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Arabic ontology lexical concept id → 151080775
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Wordnet 3.1 synset id: 15071467-n"
  9. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0007566-pevne-latky
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0007566-pevne-latky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259490|batch #259490]]"
  10. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Solids, Q9734169
    Manifestation of → solid state of matter
    Instance of → fundamental state of matter, physical state
    Subclass of → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007556081205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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