universal joint

mechanism with bendable rotation axis
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universal joint

Summary

universal joint ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (379 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • universal joint's image is recorded as Universal joint.gif[2].
  • Christopher Polhem is named after universal joint[3].
  • universal joint's GND ID is recorded as 4261331-0[4].
  • universal joint's subclass of is recorded as joint[5].
  • universal joint's has use is recorded as cardan shaft[6].
  • universal joint's Commons category is recorded as Universal joints[7].
  • universal joint's said to be the same as is recorded as cardan shaft[8].
  • universal joint's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 22897[9].
  • universal joint's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/012d66[10].
  • universal joint's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 621.825[11].
  • universal joint's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0014871[12].
  • universal joint's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0190056[13].
  • universal joint's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0190061[14].
  • universal joint's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[15].
  • universal joint's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/universal-joint[16].
  • universal joint's different from is recorded as constant-velocity joint[17].
  • universal joint's Quora topic ID is recorded as Universal-Joint[18].
  • universal joint's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as universal-joints[19].
  • universal joint's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as universalledd[20].
  • universal joint's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 63316402[21].
  • universal joint's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 8924[22].
  • universal joint's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 04518001-n[23].
  • universal joint's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C63316402[24].
  • universal joint's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as kardannyi-mekhanizm-a127e4[25].
  • universal joint's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as junta-de-cardan[26].

Why It Matters

universal joint ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (379 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
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  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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