soliton

self-reinforcing solitary wave packet that maintains its shape while it propagates at a constant velocity
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soliton

Summary

soliton ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (566 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • soliton is credited with the discovery of John Scott Russell[2].
  • soliton's image is recorded as Soliton hydro.jpg[3].
  • soliton's GND ID is recorded as 4135213-0[4].
  • soliton's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85124672[5].
  • soliton's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 121208158[6].
  • soliton's subclass of is recorded as wave[7].
  • soliton's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00576468[8].
  • soliton's Commons category is recorded as Solitons[9].
  • soliton's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 49064[10].
  • soliton's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1834-00-00T00:00:00Z[11].
  • soliton's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dm85[12].
  • soliton's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph161651[13].
  • soliton's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Solitons[14].
  • soliton's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 530.124[15].
  • soliton's PSH ID is recorded as 3139[16].
  • soliton's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/soliton[17].
  • soliton's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://math.stackexchange.com/tags/soliton-theory[18].
  • soliton's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/solitons[19].
  • soliton's different from is recorded as Soliton[20].
  • soliton's MathWorld ID is recorded as Soliton[21].
  • soliton's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 3634157[22].
  • soliton's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as solitons[23].
  • soliton's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as soliton[24].
  • soliton's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[25].
  • soliton's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Fluid dynamics[26].

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Works and Contributions

soliton is credited with the discovery of John Scott Russell[2].

Why It Matters

soliton ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (566 views/month).[1] soliton has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] soliton is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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