steelyard balance

scale having a fixed fulcrum and a movable counterweight whose distance along a horizontal graduated beam is moved to balance a suspended object
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steelyard balance

Summary

steelyard balance ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (91 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • steelyard balance's image is recorded as Balance romaineGP.jpg[2].
  • steelyard balance's image is recorded as 19th-century steelyard.png[3].
  • steelyard balance's subclass of is recorded as weighing scale[4].
  • steelyard balance's Commons category is recorded as Steelyard balances[5].
  • steelyard balance's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 75878[6].
  • steelyard balance's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0h3y_g[7].
  • steelyard balance's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300207749[8].
  • steelyard balance's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • steelyard balance's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[10].
  • steelyard balance's Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID is recorded as stadera[11].
  • steelyard balance's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as bismer[12].
  • steelyard balance's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["MeasurementDevice", "SteelyardBalance"][13].
  • steelyard balance's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777161555[14].
  • steelyard balance's Lex ID is recorded as bismer[15].
  • steelyard balance's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 04319292-n[16].
  • steelyard balance's National Historical Museums of Sweden ID is recorded as term/E12B7388-9490-4CFF-8523-2ED354721609[17].
  • steelyard balance's WikiStrinda article ID is recorded as 3542[18].
  • steelyard balance's Bergen byleksikon ID is recorded as 1420021[19].
  • steelyard balance's Portable Antiquities Scheme object type ID is recorded as STEELYARD[20].
  • steelyard balance's FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus ID is recorded as 95315[21].
  • steelyard balance's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as bezmen-fd0d83[22].
  • steelyard balance's Vikidia article ID is recorded as fr:Balance_romaine[23].

Why It Matters

steelyard balance ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (91 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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