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time ball

Summary

time ball ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (121 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • time ball's image is recorded as Royal observatory greenwich.jpg[2].
  • time ball's subclass of is recorded as appliance[3].
  • time ball's has use is recorded as time signal[4].
  • time ball's Commons category is recorded as Time balls[5].
  • time ball's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03dwrj[6].
  • time ball's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300257666[7].
  • time ball's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[8].

Why It Matters

time ball ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (121 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). time ball. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/time-ball
MLA “time ball.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/time-ball.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_time-ball_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{time ball}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/time-ball}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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