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contrail

long, thin artificial clouds that sometimes form behind aircraft
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contrail

Summary

contrail ranks in the top 0.84% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,362 views/month, #652 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • contrail is a type of cirrus[2].
  • contrail is a type of artificial cloud[3].
  • contrail is a type of by-product[4].
  • contrail is a type of trajectory[5].
  • contrail's Commons category is recorded as Contrails[6].
  • contrail is the opposite of dissipation trail[7].
  • contrail's has cause is recorded as condensation[8].
  • contrail's has cause is recorded as dew point[9].
  • contrail's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Contrails[10].
  • contrail's Commons gallery is recorded as Contrail[11].
  • contrail's different from is recorded as wingtip vortices[12].
  • contrail's studied by is recorded as thermodynamics[13].
  • contrail's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Climate change[14].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include cirrus[2], artificial cloud[3], by-product[4], and trajectory[5]. contrail is the opposite of dissipation trail[7].

Why It Matters

contrail ranks in the top 0.84% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,362 views/month, #652 of 77,819).[1] contrail has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] contrail is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

thermodynamics

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Studied by → thermodynamics
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject Climate change
    Opposite of → dissipation trail
    Has cause → condensation, dew point
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007553041405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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