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surface wave

mechanical wave that propagates along the interface between differing media
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surface wave

Summary

surface wave ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (117 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • surface wave's GND ID is recorded as 4193158-0[2].
  • surface wave's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 13338466p[3].
  • surface wave's subclass of is recorded as mechanical wave[4].
  • surface wave's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 37557[5].
  • surface wave's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bgxt[6].
  • surface wave's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 530.417[7].
  • surface wave's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/surface-wave-seismology[8].
  • surface wave's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/surface-wave-water[9].
  • surface wave's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as surface-waves[10].
  • surface wave's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as overflatebølge[11].
  • surface wave's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 84174578[12].
  • surface wave's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C84174578[13].

Why It Matters

surface wave ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (117 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_surface-wave_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{surface wave}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/surface-wave}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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