water hammer

pressure surge when a fluid is forced to stop or change direction suddenly
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water hammer

Summary

water hammer ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (194 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • water hammer's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85145563[2].
  • water hammer's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11947055n[3].
  • water hammer's subclass of is recorded as shock wave[4].
  • water hammer's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00571549[5].
  • water hammer's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 41051[6].
  • water hammer's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/027927[7].
  • water hammer's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0220382[8].
  • water hammer's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[9].
  • water hammer's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[10].
  • water hammer's Quora topic ID is recorded as Water-Hammer-1[11].
  • water hammer's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 137999[12].
  • water hammer's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778295731[13].
  • water hammer's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007551276505171[14].
  • water hammer's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2778295731[15].
  • water hammer's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as gidravlicheskii-udar-9a98e8[16].
  • water hammer's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as cop-dariet[17].
  • water hammer's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/60ccf651-1c13-4ef5-81c5-695f08cdc33a[18].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for water hammer include Watson's it pulse[19], a clinical sign[20].

Why It Matters

water hammer ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (194 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Entities named for it include Watson's it pulse[19], a clinical sign[20].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [19] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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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