total station

combined electronic theodolite and electronic distance meter; used in surveying and building construction
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total station

Summary

total station ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (171 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • total station's image is recorded as DTM-A20LG-01.jpg[2].
  • total station's image is recorded as DTM-A20LG-04.jpg[3].
  • total station's subclass of is recorded as measuring instrument[4].
  • total station's has use is recorded as topography[5].
  • total station's has use is recorded as cartography[6].
  • total station's has use is recorded as surveying[7].
  • total station's has use is recorded as cadastre[8].
  • total station's Commons category is recorded as Tachymeters (survey)[9].
  • total station's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 33104[10].
  • total station's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/032p38[11].
  • total station's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300379943[12].
  • total station's Quora topic ID is recorded as Total-Station-2[13].
  • total station's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as totalstasjon[14].
  • total station's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["MeasurementDevice", "TotalStation"][15].
  • total station's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 168498295[16].
  • total station's Lex ID is recorded as totalstation[17].
  • total station's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 04390102-n[18].
  • total station's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C168498295[19].
  • total station's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 100875[20].

Why It Matters

total station ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (171 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . engineersupply.com. engineersupply.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . engineersupply.com. engineersupply.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . engineersupply.com. engineersupply.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . engineersupply.com. engineersupply.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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