guillotine
apparatus designed for carrying out executions by beheading
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Summary
guillotine is an execution method[1]. guillotine draws 49,927 Wikipedia views per month (execution method category, ranking #6 of 40).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Antoine Louis[3]
- Named after: Joseph-Ignace Guillotin[4]
- Subclass of: appliance[5], decapitation device[6]
- Has use: capital punishment[7]
- Commons category: Guillotines[8]
- Time of discovery or invention: 1792[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Guillotine[10]
- Commons gallery: Guillotine[11]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[14], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[15], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[16], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[18]
- Replaces: executioner's sword[19]
- Used by: executioner[20]
- Different from: Gilotyna[21]
- Uses: scaffold[22]
- Exact match: http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/03467068-n[23]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Death[24], WikiProject Correction and Detention Facilities[25], WikiProject Law[26], WikiProject Law Enforcement[27], WikiProject Human rights[28], WikiProject France[29]
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Influence
Things named for guillotine include guillotine choke[30] and Guillotine problem[31], a mathematical problem[32].
Why It Matters
guillotine has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] guillotine is known by 65 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]
Entities named for guillotine include guillotine choke[30] and Guillotine problem[31], a mathematical problem[32].