retaining wall

structure designed to confine and support soil laterally so that it can be retained on unnatural slopes
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retaining wall

Summary

retaining wall ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (333 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • retaining wall's image is recorded as Great Wall of Glandyfi and Glandyfi Castle, Dyfi Biosphere, Ceredigion, Cymru (Wales) 13.png[2].
  • retaining wall's GND ID is recorded as 4183856-7[3].
  • retaining wall's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85113309[4].
  • retaining wall's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11932548b[5].
  • retaining wall's subclass of is recorded as wall[6].
  • retaining wall's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00574275[7].
  • retaining wall's Commons category is recorded as Retaining walls[8].
  • retaining wall's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 24982[9].
  • retaining wall's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02l1b8[10].
  • retaining wall's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph123778[11].
  • retaining wall's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX531924[12].
  • retaining wall's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300005073[13].
  • retaining wall's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 721.2[14].
  • retaining wall's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as barrier=retaining_wall[15].
  • retaining wall's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/retaining-wall[16].
  • retaining wall's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as retaining-walls[17].
  • retaining wall's PACTOLS thesaurus ID is recorded as pcrtYDw1DVDUXe[18].
  • retaining wall's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i58120[19].
  • retaining wall's Thesaurus for Graphic Materials ID is recorded as tgm008864[20].
  • retaining wall's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780933643[21].
  • retaining wall's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007533910205171[22].
  • retaining wall's Lex ID is recorded as støttemur[23].
  • retaining wall's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 04089822-n[24].
  • retaining wall's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2991833606[25].
  • retaining wall's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2780933643[26].

Why It Matters

retaining wall ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (333 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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