blinking

rapid closing and opening of the eyelid
Thing reflex Q1044679
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blinking

Summary

blinking is a reflex[1]. blinking draws 157 Wikipedia views per month (reflex category, ranking #7 of 22).[2]

Key Facts

  • blinking's video is recorded as Eye opening and closing.gif[3].
  • blinking's instance of is recorded as reflex[4].
  • blinking's subclass of is recorded as motion[5].
  • blinking's Commons category is recorded as Blinking[6].
  • blinking's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D001767[7].
  • blinking's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/035_3r[8].
  • blinking's MeSH tree code is recorded as G11.561.731.127[9].
  • blinking's MeSH tree code is recorded as G14.152[10].
  • blinking's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • blinking's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[12].
  • blinking's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/blinking[13].
  • blinking's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q723733', 'amount': '+200'}[14].
  • blinking's Quora topic ID is recorded as Blinking[15].
  • blinking's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as blinking[16].
  • blinking's Yle topic ID is recorded as 18-277177[17].
  • blinking's WikiKids ID is recorded as Knipperen[18].
  • blinking's class of object is recorded as eyelid[19].

Why It Matters

blinking draws 157 Wikipedia views per month (reflex category, ranking #7 of 22).[2] blinking has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] blinking is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Q24471195. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Q24471195. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). blinking. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/blinking
MLA “blinking.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/blinking.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_blinking_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{blinking}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/blinking}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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