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olympiad

period of four years associated with the Olympic Games of the Ancient Greeks
Class type of: historical period Q221956
olympiad
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Summary

olympiad is a time standard[1].

Key Facts

  • Instance of: time interval[2], unit of time[3]
  • Measured physical quantity: duration[4]
  • Subclass of: historical period[5]
  • Described by source: Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[6], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[10], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12]
  • Different from: Olympic Games[13]
  • Conversion to SI unit: 126,230,400 seconds[14]
  • Conversion to standard unit: 4 years[15]

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 18w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Oxford classical dictionary id → 4543
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Oxford classical dictionary id: 4543, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107286674|Olympiad (#107286674)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Classic"
  2. 26w ago · Stuchalk · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Conversion to standard unit → {'unit': 'Q577', 'amount': '+4'}
    Described by source → Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +4
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    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Conversion to si unit: 126,144,000 second"
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