witness
person who can attest to the reality of a fact
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Summary
witness is an evidence[1]. witness draws 1,858 Wikipedia views per month (evidence category, ranking #2 of 4).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: assessment[3]
- Subclass of: person linked to the law[4], procedural law[5]
- Commons category: Witnesses[6]
- Said to be the same as: bystander[7]
- Topic's main category: Category:Witness (law)[8]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[9], Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[10], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan[14], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 11[15]
- Has characteristic: perception[16]
- Different from: Witness[17]
- Female form of label: свидетельница[18], עדה[19], свідка[20]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[21], concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies[22]
- P14541: 4MB0xW[23]
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Influence
Things named for witness include bystander effect[24], a phenomenon[25] and SegWit[26], a soft fork[27].
Why It Matters
witness has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] witness is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]
Entities named for witness include bystander effect[24], a phenomenon[25] and SegWit[26], a soft fork[27].