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tidal locking

situation in which an astronomical object's orbital period matches its rotational period
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tidal locking

Summary

tidal locking ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,042 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • tidal locking's subclass of is recorded as rotation[2].
  • tidal locking's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0gcnh[3].
  • tidal locking's has cause is recorded as tidal acceleration[4].
  • tidal locking's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/synchronous-rotation[5].
  • tidal locking's BabelNet ID is recorded as 03431059n[6].
  • tidal locking's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as bunden_rotasjon[7].
  • tidal locking's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 36293798[8].
  • tidal locking's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/TidallyLockedPlanet[9].
  • tidal locking's Lex ID is recorded as bunden_rotation[10].
  • tidal locking's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C36293798[11].

Why It Matters

tidal locking ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,042 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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