watermill

structure that uses a water wheel or turbine to drive a mechanical process
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watermill

Summary

watermill ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (963 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • watermill is a type of mill[2].
  • watermill is part of water mill building[3].
  • watermill's Commons category is recorded as Watermills[4].
  • watermill comprises hydro power machine[5].
  • watermill's source of energy is recorded as hydropower[6].
  • watermill's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Watermills[7].
  • watermill's Commons gallery is recorded as Watermill[8].
  • watermill's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as man_made=watermill[9].
  • watermill's described by source is recorded as Arkeologisen kulttuuriperinnön opas[10].
  • watermill's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[11].
  • watermill's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • watermill's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[13].
  • watermill's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox windmill[14].
  • watermill's used by is recorded as water miller[15].
  • watermill's main Wikidata property is recorded as P6406[16].
  • watermill's main Wikidata property is recorded as P206[17].
  • watermill's equivalent class is recorded as http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Watermill[18].
  • watermill's uses is recorded as mill race[19].
  • watermill's has list is recorded as list of watermills[20].

Body

Definition and Type

watermill is a type of mill[2].

Use and Application

watermill comprises hydro power machine[5]. watermill is part of water mill building[3]. watermill's used by is recorded as water miller[15].

Influence

Things named for watermill include Palaiomylos[21], a community of Cyprus Republic[22], in Cyprus[23] and Kato Mylos[24], a community of Cyprus Republic[25], in Cyprus[26].

Why It Matters

watermill ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (963 views/month).[1] watermill has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] watermill is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Entities named for watermill include Palaiomylos[21], a community of Cyprus Republic[22], in Cyprus[23] and Kato Mylos[24], a community of Cyprus Republic[25], in Cyprus[26].

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] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . akp.nba.fi. Retrieved . akp.nba.fi. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [21] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [24] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of water mill building
    Source of energy hydropower
    Aliases
    Subclass of mill
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 16851, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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