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atomic clock

extremely accurate reference clock used as a standard for timekeeping
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atomic clock

Summary

atomic clock ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,608 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • atomic clock's image is recorded as Atomic Clock-Louis Essen.jpg[2].
  • atomic clock's image is recorded as ChipScaleClock2 HR.jpg[3].
  • atomic clock's image is recorded as President Piñera receives ESO's first atomic clock.jpg[4].
  • atomic clock's image is recorded as 17jila003 3d strontium atomic clock.jpg[5].
  • atomic clock's image is recorded as Ytterbium Optical Lattice Clock purple and green light.png[6].
  • atomic clock's GND ID is recorded as 4259141-7[7].
  • atomic clock's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85009316[8].
  • atomic clock's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11980310n[9].
  • atomic clock's subclass of is recorded as timepiece[10].
  • atomic clock's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00562371[11].
  • atomic clock's Commons category is recorded as Atomic clocks[12].
  • atomic clock's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 62574[13].
  • atomic clock's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1955-06-03T00:00:00Z[14].
  • atomic clock's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0x_2[15].
  • atomic clock's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Atomic clocks[16].
  • atomic clock's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300195793[17].
  • atomic clock's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 681.113[18].
  • atomic clock's PSH ID is recorded as 363[19].
  • atomic clock's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1295741[20].
  • atomic clock's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0154145[21].
  • atomic clock's described by source is recorded as Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia[22].
  • atomic clock's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/atomic-clocks[23].
  • atomic clock's BBC Things ID is recorded as 91e4134a-b248-49df-bac5-c726cbd7a63d[24].
  • atomic clock's different from is recorded as nuclear clock[25].
  • atomic clock's different from is recorded as pulsar clock[26].

Why It Matters

atomic clock ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,608 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Related Entities

Department of Defense master clock DS-U2-M Jean-Claude Simon

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  9. [10] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
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  13. [14] ↑ . eandt.theiet.org. eandt.theiet.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  23. [24] ↑ . BBC Things. 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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