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binoculars

pair of telescopes mounted side-by-side
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Summary

binoculars ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,911 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: optical instrument[2]
  • Has use: surveillance[3]
  • Commons category: Binoculars[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Binoculars[5]
  • Commons gallery: Binoculars[6]
  • Described by source: Sytin Military Encyclopedia[7], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11]
  • Has characteristic: magnification[12], angular resolution[13], objective diameter[14], field of view[15]
  • Native label: binocle[16]
  • Different from: monocular[17], binocular vision[18]
  • Exact match: http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/02841315-n[19]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20]

Why It Matters

binoculars has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] binoculars is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Related Entities

Carl Zeiss AG Leica Camera Pentax

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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