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precipitation

liquid or solid water that falls to the ground
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Summary

precipitation is a type of meteorological phenomenon[1]. precipitation draws 6,097 Wikipedia views per month (type of meteorological phenomenon category, ranking #7 of 22).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: material transport process[3]
  • Part of: weather[4]
  • Commons category: Precipitation (weather)[5]
  • Has cause: cloud[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Precipitation[7]
  • Commons gallery: Precipitation[8]
  • Described by source: New Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[11]
  • Has characteristic: amount of precipitation[12]
  • Main Wikidata property: P3036[13]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[14], WikiProject Climate change[15], Information integrity on extreme weather events[16]

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Influence

Things named for precipitation include meteoric water[17].

Why It Matters

precipitation has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] precipitation is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Entities named for precipitation include meteoric water[17].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 114
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX524458
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'bat_smg', 'bcl', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'blk', 'bn',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0): XX524458"
  2. 26d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → material transport process
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Subclass of: material transport process"
  3. 26d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Environment ontology id → 01000875
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Environment ontology id: 01000875"
  4. 15w ago · EPorto (WMB) · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4, WikiProject Climate change, Information integrity on extreme weather events
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39710|batch #39710]]"
  5. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0009716-vodni-srazky
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0009716-vodni-srazky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  6. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → type of meteorological phenomenon
    Part of → weather
    Has cause → cloud
    Enciclopedia galega universal id → 171210
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ Yso id: 7001, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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