breaking wave

wave that becomes unstable as a consequence of excessive steepness
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breaking wave

Summary

breaking wave ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (177 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • breaking wave's video is recorded as Breaking wave in wavemaker.ogv[2].
  • breaking wave's image is recorded as Large breaking wave.jpg[3].
  • breaking wave's image is recorded as Boelge stor.jpg[4].
  • breaking wave's audio is recorded as Branding - SoundCloud - Beeld en Geluid.ogg[5].
  • breaking wave's subclass of is recorded as wind wave[6].
  • breaking wave's Commons category is recorded as Breaking water waves[7].
  • breaking wave's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0f4ltf[8].
  • breaking wave's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[9].
  • breaking wave's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • breaking wave's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • breaking wave's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Fluid dynamics[12].
  • breaking wave's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 169596890[13].
  • breaking wave's Lex ID is recorded as brænding[14].
  • breaking wave's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C169596890[15].
  • breaking wave's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as priboi-f1c802[16].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for breaking wave include Breakers Hotel[17], a hotel building[18], in United States[19], founded in 1925[20].

Why It Matters

breaking wave ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (177 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21]

Entities named for it include Breakers Hotel[17], a hotel building[18], in United States[19], founded in 1925[20].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [17] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [18] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [19] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

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

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