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optical instrument

instrument using light waves for image viewing
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optical instrument
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Summary

optical instrument ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (243 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • optical instrument's field of work was optics[2].
  • optical instrument is a type of scientific instrument[3].
  • optical instrument is a type of optical system[4].
  • optical instrument is a type of camera and optics product[5].
  • optical instrument's Commons category is recorded as Optical devices[6].
  • optical instrument's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Optical instruments[7].
  • optical instrument's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Optical devices[8].
  • optical instrument's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[9].
  • optical instrument's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • optical instrument's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • optical instrument's different from is recorded as optical component[12].
  • optical instrument's P14541 is recorded as 95DEH[13].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include scientific instrument[3], optical system[4], and camera and optics product[5].

Why It Matters

optical instrument ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (243 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 74 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . zgbk.com. zgbk.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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  1. 8d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 36
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'az', 'be', 'ca', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'gl', 'hi', 'hy', '
    Harper's tag → optical-instruments
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: optical-instruments, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289956796|optical instruments (#289956796)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915"
  2. 16w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 95DEH
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37444|batch #37444]]: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) (P14541) 2"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0212786-opticke-pristroje
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0212786-opticke-pristroje, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → optical component
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → scientific instrument, optical system, camera and optics product
    Local thumb → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 3023, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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