meander

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meander

Summary

meander ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,275 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Great Menderes River is named after meander[2].
  • meander is a type of water area[3].
  • meander is part of watercourse[4].
  • meander's Commons category is recorded as Meanders[5].
  • meander comprises cut bank[6].
  • meander comprises point bar[7].
  • meander's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Meanders[8].
  • meander's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[9].
  • meander's described by source is recorded as Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste[10].
  • meander's different from is recorded as Meander[11].
  • meander's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000427[12].
  • meander's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13].
  • meander's model item is recorded as Uvac[14].

Body

Definition and Type

meander is a type of water area[3].

Origins

Great Menderes River is named after meander[2].

Use and Application

Components include cut bank[6] and point bar[7]. meander is part of watercourse[4].

Influence

Things named for meander include Great Bend[15], a city in the United States[16], in United States[17], founded in 1888[18].

Why It Matters

meander ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,275 views/month).[1] meander has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] meander is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Entities named for meander include Great Bend[15], a city in the United States[16], in United States[17], founded in 1888[18].

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] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . Environment Ontology. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [15] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [16] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [17] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [18] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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