trade wind

permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in the Earth's equatorial region
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trade wind

Summary

trade wind ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (732 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • trade wind's image is recorded as Earth Global Circulation.jpg[2].
  • trade wind's GND ID is recorded as 4173478-6[3].
  • trade wind's subclass of is recorded as wind[4].
  • trade wind's part of is recorded as atmospheric circulation[5].
  • trade wind's Commons category is recorded as Trade winds[6].
  • trade wind's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02zwx_[7].
  • trade wind's PSH ID is recorded as 4119[8].
  • trade wind's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0076799[9].
  • trade wind's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[10].
  • trade wind's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • trade wind's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • trade wind's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • trade wind's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 9[14].
  • trade wind's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/trade-wind[15].
  • trade wind's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00077861n[16].
  • trade wind's Treccani ID is recorded as alisei[17].
  • trade wind's Cultureel Woordenboek ID is recorded as aarde-weer-en-klimaat/passaatwind[18].
  • trade wind's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as trade-winds[19].
  • trade wind's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as passat[20].
  • trade wind's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[21].
  • trade wind's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 137462672[22].
  • trade wind's Krugosvet article is recorded as geografiya/passaty[23].
  • trade wind's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/7165[24].
  • trade wind's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3954742[25].
  • trade wind's Lex ID is recorded as passat[26].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for trade wind include Breguet 1050 Alizé[27], an aircraft family[28].

Why It Matters

trade wind ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (732 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] It is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for it include Breguet 1050 Alizé[27], an aircraft family[28].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
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  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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