wavenumber

inverse of the wavelength
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wavenumber

Summary

wavenumber ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (433 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • wavenumber's GND ID is recorded as 4189558-7[2].
  • wavenumber's subclass of is recorded as physical quantity[3].
  • wavenumber's subclass of is recorded as scalar quantity[4].
  • wavenumber's subclass of is recorded as reciprocal length[5].
  • wavenumber's Commons category is recorded as Wavenumber[6].
  • wavenumber's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/015xlf[7].
  • wavenumber's described by source is recorded as ISO 80000-3:2006 Quantities and units — Part 3: Space and time[8].
  • wavenumber's described by source is recorded as ISO 80000-3:2019 Quantities and units — Part 3: Space and time[9].
  • wavenumber's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[10].
  • wavenumber's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/wave-number[11].
  • wavenumber's different from is recorded as angular wavenumber[12].
  • wavenumber's defining formula is recorded as \sigma = 1/\lambda[13].
  • wavenumber's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1926474[14].
  • wavenumber's wurvoc.org measure ID is recorded as Wavenumber[15].
  • wavenumber's Quora topic ID is recorded as Wave-Number[16].
  • wavenumber's ISQ dimension is recorded as \mathsf{L}^{-1}[17].
  • wavenumber's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as bølgetall[18].
  • wavenumber's IUPAC Gold Book ID is recorded as W06664[19].
  • wavenumber's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 136962[20].
  • wavenumber's World of Physics ID is recorded as Wavenumber[21].
  • wavenumber's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[22].
  • wavenumber's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 121130766[23].
  • wavenumber's in defining formula is recorded as \sigma[24].
  • wavenumber's in defining formula is recorded as \lambda[25].
  • wavenumber's Wolfram Language quantity ID is recorded as Wavenumber[26].

Why It Matters

wavenumber ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (433 views/month).[1] wavenumber has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] wavenumber is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

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] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . ISO 80000-3:2006 Quantities and units — Part 3: Space and time. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . 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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