diffraction grating

optical system diffracting light into several components based on interference
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diffraction grating

Summary

diffraction grating ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (450 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • diffraction grating's GND ID is recorded as 4122915-0[2].
  • diffraction grating's subclass of is recorded as optical system[3].
  • diffraction grating's subclass of is recorded as optical component[4].
  • diffraction grating's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00564629[5].
  • diffraction grating's Commons category is recorded as Diffraction gratings[6].
  • diffraction grating's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0b7m2[7].
  • diffraction grating's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph301316[8].
  • diffraction grating's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[9].
  • diffraction grating's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/diffraction-grating[10].
  • diffraction grating's different from is recorded as grating[11].
  • diffraction grating's defining formula is recorded as d\sin(\alpha_n)=n\lambda[12].
  • diffraction grating's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13].
  • diffraction grating's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i52885[14].
  • diffraction grating's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[15].
  • diffraction grating's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 126753812[16].
  • diffraction grating's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3974756[17].
  • diffraction grating's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007552907305171[18].
  • diffraction grating's Lex ID is recorded as optisk_gitter[19].
  • diffraction grating's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 535.420284[20].
  • diffraction grating's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 03199222-n[21].
  • diffraction grating's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C126753812[22].
  • diffraction grating's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as medicine-and-dentistry/diffraction-grating[23].
  • diffraction grating's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as physics-and-astronomy/diffraction-grating[24].
  • diffraction grating's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as difraktsionnaia-reshiotka-e99e02[25].

Why It Matters

diffraction grating ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (450 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

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  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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