dam

barrier that impounds water or underground streams
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dam

Summary

dam ranks in the top 0.94% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,839 views/month, #732 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • dam's video is recorded as Dam in Europe at Autumn as viewed from FPV drone.webm[2].
  • dam's image is recorded as RappbodeLufts.JPG[3].
  • dam's GND ID is recorded as 4058956-0[4].
  • dam's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85035582[5].
  • dam's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119470351[6].
  • dam's subclass of is recorded as barrier structure[7].
  • dam's subclass of is recorded as infrastructure[8].
  • dam's subclass of is recorded as obstacle[9].
  • dam's subclass of is recorded as architectural structure[10].
  • dam's subclass of is recorded as hydraulic structure[11].
  • dam's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00561245[12].
  • dam's has use is recorded as flood control structure[13].
  • dam's has use is recorded as hydroelectricity[14].
  • dam's has use is recorded as agricultural irrigation[15].
  • dam's has use is recorded as drinking water[16].
  • dam's has use is recorded as aquaculture[17].
  • dam's has use is recorded as navigability[18].
  • dam's has use is recorded as outdoor recreation[19].
  • dam's has use is recorded as reservoir[20].
  • dam's Commons category is recorded as Dams[21].
  • dam's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 9752[22].
  • dam's has part is recorded as spillway[23].
  • dam's has part is recorded as concrete dam[24].
  • dam's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dl8m[25].
  • dam's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph115986[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for dam include Rotterdam[27], a big city[28], in Netherlands[29].

Why It Matters

dam ranks in the top 0.94% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,839 views/month, #732 of 77,819).[1] dam has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] dam is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for dam include Rotterdam[27], a big city[28], in Netherlands[29].

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] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . Daijirin. Retrieved . kotobank.jp. Provenance: 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] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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