waterspout

weather phenomenon characterized by an intense columnar vortex that occurs over a body of water
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waterspout

Summary

waterspout ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (951 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • waterspout's image is recorded as Waterspout near Cap de Formentor, Mallorca 2006-09-25.jpg[2].
  • waterspout's subclass of is recorded as tornado[3].
  • waterspout's Commons category is recorded as Waterspouts[4].
  • waterspout's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/034fk6[5].
  • waterspout's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Waterspouts[6].
  • waterspout's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[7].
  • waterspout's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[8].
  • waterspout's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 9[9].
  • waterspout's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/waterspout[10].
  • waterspout's different from is recorded as whirlpool[11].
  • waterspout's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01001487[12].
  • waterspout's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as tornades-et-trombes[13].
  • waterspout's Quora topic ID is recorded as Waterspout[14].
  • waterspout's Environment Ontology ID is recorded as 01001487[15].
  • waterspout's Thesaurus for Graphic Materials ID is recorded as tgm011596[16].
  • waterspout's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Fluid dynamics[17].
  • waterspout's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 20353831[18].
  • waterspout's Lex ID is recorded as skypumpe[19].
  • waterspout's KBpedia ID is recorded as Waterspout[20].
  • waterspout's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 11544757-n[21].
  • waterspout's GCMD keyword ID is recorded as 2992d7d3-5ae6-4844-b0fa-4ad348e3a8c2[22].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for waterspout include Smerch[23], a monitor[24].

Why It Matters

waterspout ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (951 views/month).[1] waterspout has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] waterspout is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Entities named for waterspout include Smerch[23], a monitor[24].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [23] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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