slate

Summary

slate is a stone^[1]. slate draws 581 Wikipedia views per month (stone category, ranking #4 of 22).^[2]

Key Facts

• slate's image is recorded as SlateUSGOV.jpg^[3].
• slate's instance of is recorded as stone^[4].
• slate's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85123296^[5].
• slate's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119316382^[6].
• slate's subclass of is recorded as metamorphic rock^[7].
• slate's subclass of is recorded as schistose rock^[8].
• slate's has use is recorded as building material^[9].
• slate's has use is recorded as writing surface^[10].
• slate's Commons category is recorded as Slate^[11].
• slate's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 33715^[12].
• slate's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0c1ml^[13].
• slate's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph524160^[14].
• slate's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Slate^[15].
• slate's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300011646^[16].
• slate's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 553.54^[17].
• slate's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0120168^[18].
• slate's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary^[19].
• slate's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[20].
• slate's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[21].
• slate's described by source is recorded as Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia^[22].
• slate's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary^[23].
• slate's described by source is recorded as Reference Encyclopedic Dictionary^[24].
• slate's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[25].
• slate's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[26].
• slate's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/slate-geology^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for slate include slate gray^[28], a color^[29] and Slate Range^[30], a mountain range^[31], in Canada^[32].

Why It Matters

slate draws 581 Wikipedia views per month (stone category, ranking #4 of 22).^[2] slate has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[33] slate is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[34]

Entities named for slate include slate gray^[28], a color^[29] and Slate Range^[30], a mountain range^[31], in Canada^[32].