cloud

visible mass of liquid droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere
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cloud

Summary

cloud is a type of meteorological phenomenon[1]. cloud draws 4,894 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_meteorological_phenomenon category, ranking #3 of 22).[2]

Key Facts

  • cloud's instance of is recorded as type of meteorological phenomenon[3].
  • cloud is made of water vapor[4].
  • cloud is made of droplet[5].
  • cloud is made of ice crystal[6].
  • cloud is a type of meteorological phenomenon[7].
  • cloud is a type of weather[8].
  • cloud's Commons category is recorded as Clouds[9].
  • cloud's said to be the same as is recorded as Nuaj[10].
  • cloud's Unicode character is recorded as ☁[11].
  • cloud's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Clouds[12].
  • cloud's Commons gallery is recorded as Cloud[13].
  • cloud's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[14].
  • cloud's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • cloud's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • cloud's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[17].
  • cloud's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • cloud's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[19].
  • cloud's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[20].
  • cloud's has effect is recorded as sun dog[21].
  • cloud's different from is recorded as Chmura[22].
  • cloud's studied by is recorded as nephology[23].
  • cloud's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000760[24].
  • cloud's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[25].
  • cloud's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26].
  • cloud's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Climate change[27].

Body

Definition and Type

cloud's instance of is recorded as type of meteorological phenomenon[3]. Recorded subclass of include meteorological phenomenon[7] and weather[8].

Influence

Things named for cloud include Meghalaya[28], a state of India[29], in India[30], founded in 1972[31]; cloud computing[32]; cloud storage[33]; Nephele[34], a Greek nymph[35]; Izumo[36], a city of Japan[37], in Japan[38], founded in 1941[39]; nepheline[40], a mineral species[41]; Nimbus[42], an enterprise[43], founded in 1918[44], headquartered in Copenhagen[45]; and Mare Nubium[46], a lunar mare[47].

Why It Matters

cloud draws 4,894 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_meteorological_phenomenon category, ranking #3 of 22).[2] cloud has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[48] cloud is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[49]

Entities named for cloud include Meghalaya[28], a state of India[29], in India[30], founded in 1972[31]; cloud computing[32]; cloud storage[33]; Nephele[34], a Greek nymph[35]; Izumo[36], a city of Japan[37], in Japan[38], founded in 1941[39]; and nepheline[40], a mineral species[41].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . 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] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [32] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [33] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [34] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [36] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [40] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [42] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [46] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [39] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [41] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [43] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [44] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [45] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [47] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [48] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [49] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17h ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Studied by nephology
    On focus list of wikimedia project Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4, WikiProject Climate change
    Subclass of meteorological phenomenon, weather
    Instance of type of meteorological phenomenon
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 9786, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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