Eureka

interjection used to celebrate a discovery or invention; a transliteration of a word attributed to Archimedes
Thing interjection Q217454
Eureka
Giammaria Mazzucchelli / Pietro Scalvini · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Eureka

Summary

Eureka is an interjection[1]. Eureka draws 818 Wikipedia views per month (interjection category, ranking #2 of 15).[2]

Key Facts

  • Eureka authored Archimedes[3].
  • Eureka is in the country of United States[4].
  • Eureka's image is recorded as Eureka! Archimede.jpg[5].
  • Eureka's instance of is recorded as interjection[6].
  • Eureka's instance of is recorded as U.S. state motto[7].
  • Eureka's location is recorded as Syracuse[8].
  • Eureka's Commons category is recorded as Eureka (word)[9].
  • Eureka's language of work or name is recorded as Greek[10].
  • -0250-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Eureka[11].
  • Eureka's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/087kr0[12].
  • Eureka's applies to jurisdiction is recorded as California[13].
  • Eureka's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • Eureka's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • Eureka's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[16].
  • Eureka's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • Eureka's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[18].
  • Eureka's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/EurekaMoment[19].
  • Eureka's Lex ID is recorded as heureka[20].

Body

Works and Contributions

Eureka authored Archimedes[3]. Things named for Eureka include Eureka: A Prose Poem[21], a literary work[22], written by Edgar Allan Poe[23]; Eureka County[24], a county of Nevada[25], in United States[26], founded in 1873[27]; Eureka[28], a city in the United States[29], in United States[30], founded in 1870[31]; 5261 Eureka[32], an asteroid[33]; Eurisko[34], a software[35]; Heureka[36], a science center[37], in Finland[38], founded in 1989[39]; Eureka Glacier[40], a glacier[41]; and EurekAlert![42], a website[43], in United States[44], founded in 1996[45].

Why It Matters

Eureka draws 818 Wikipedia views per month (interjection category, ranking #2 of 15).[2] Eureka has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] Eureka is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]

Entities named for Eureka include Eureka: A Prose Poem[21], a literary work[22], written by Edgar Allan Poe[23]; Eureka County[24], a county of Nevada[25], in United States[26], founded in 1873[27]; Eureka[28], a city in the United States[29], in United States[30], founded in 1870[31]; 5261 Eureka[32], an asteroid[33]; Eurisko[34], a software[35]; and Heureka[36], a science center[37], in Finland[38], founded in 1989[39].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. 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.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [38] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  13. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  14. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  15. [43] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  16. [44] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  17. [45] ↑ . 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. [46] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [47] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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