windmill
machine that converts the energy of wind into rotational energy by means of adjustable sails
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Summary
windmill ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,842 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: production structure[2], geographic location[3], converter[4], architectural structure[5]
- Has use: energy[6]
- Commons category: Windmills[7]
- SRGB color hex triplet: D2691E[8]
- Source of energy: wind power[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Windmills[10]
- Commons gallery: Windmill[11]
- OpenStreetMap tag: man_made=windmill[12]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[13], Arkeologisen kulttuuriperinnön opas[14], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[15], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16], The New Student's Reference Work[17], Kartographer icon[18]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox windmill[19]
- Used by: miller[20]
- Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Windmill[21]
- Different from: Wiatrak, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship[22], wind turbine[23]
- Belarus Globe URL: https://globustut.by/type_tn_windmlyns.htm[24]
- Has part(s) of the class: windmill sail[25], drive shaft to which a windmill's sails are affixed[26]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[27]
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Influence
Things named for windmill include windmill graph[28] and Windmill[29], a free software[30], founded in 2022[31].
Why It Matters
windmill has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] windmill is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]
Entities named for windmill include windmill graph[28] and Windmill[29], a free software[30], founded in 2022[31].