declination

astronomical coordinate
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declination

Summary

declination ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (332 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • declination's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2007000989[2].
  • declination's subclass of is recorded as angular measure[3].
  • declination's part of is recorded as equatorial coordinate system[4].
  • declination's opposite of is recorded as right ascension[5].
  • declination's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02d85[6].
  • declination's PSH ID is recorded as 336[7].
  • declination's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • declination's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[9].
  • declination's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10].
  • declination's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • declination's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • declination's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/declination[13].
  • declination's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/declination-axis[14].
  • declination's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/celestial-latitude[15].
  • declination's topic has template is recorded as Template:DEC[16].
  • declination's main Wikidata property is recorded as P6258[17].
  • declination's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 3623649[18].
  • declination's Treccani ID is recorded as declinazione-astronomica[19].
  • declination's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as declination[20].
  • declination's ISQ dimension is recorded as 1[21].
  • declination's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as deklinasjon[22].
  • declination's Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID is recorded as 365[23].
  • declination's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[24].
  • declination's lower limit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '-90'}[25].
  • declination's upper limit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+90'}[26].

Why It Matters

declination ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (332 views/month).[1] declination has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] declination is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
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  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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