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Summary
wind is a type of meteorological phenomenon[1]. wind draws 7,503 Wikipedia views per month (type of meteorological phenomenon category, ranking #11 of 22).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: form of energy[3]
- Subclass of: meteorological phenomenon[4], gas flow[5], energy source[6]
- Has use: wind power[7]
- Commons category: Wind[8]
- Said to be the same as: wind energy[9]
- Unicode character: 🌬[10]
- Has cause: motion[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Wind[12], Category:Winds[13]
- Commons gallery: Wind[14]
- Product or material produced: wind energy[15]
- Facet of: weather[16]
- Depicted by: Sala dei Venti[17]
- Described by source: Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[18], Sytin Military Encyclopedia[19], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[20], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22], Gujin Tushu Jicheng[23], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[24], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[25], Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān[26], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[27], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[28], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[29]
- Topic has template: Šablona:Vítr[30]
- Has effect: Q57385793[31]
- Has characteristic: spatial scale[32], wind direction[33], wind speed[34], region[35]
- Equivalent class: http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de/ontology/stable/GUM-3.owl#Winding[36]
- Different from: wind energy[37], Baguio[38]
- Properties for this type: P5065[39], P1479[40], P1537[41]
- Permanent duplicated item: wind[42]
- Produced sound: wind noise[43]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[44], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[45]
Body
Influence
Things named for wind include compass rose[46]; Hawa Mahal[47], a palace[48], in India[49], founded in 1799[50]; W-inds[51], a musical group[52], founded in 2001[53]; RPK-6 Vodopad/RPK-7 Veter[54], a missile model[55]; Ventôse[56], a calendar month[57], in France[58]; Alpha Ventus Offshore Wind Farm[59], an offshore wind farm[60], in Germany[61]; Wind-class icebreaker[62], a ship class[63]; and Veternica[64], a cave[65], in Croatia[66].
Why It Matters
wind has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[67] wind is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[68]
Entities named for wind include compass rose[46]; Hawa Mahal[47], a palace[48], in India[49], founded in 1799[50]; W-inds[51], a musical group[52], founded in 2001[53]; RPK-6 Vodopad/RPK-7 Veter[54], a missile model[55]; Ventôse[56], a calendar month[57], in France[58]; and Alpha Ventus Offshore Wind Farm[59], an offshore wind farm[60], in Germany[61].