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soliton

self-reinforcing solitary wave packet that maintains its shape while it propagates at a constant velocity
Class type of: wave Q464949

Facts

5 properties
Subclass of
wave
Different from
Soliton[4]
Discoverer or inventor
John Scott Russell[2]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics, WikiProject Fluid dynamics[5][6]
Time of discovery or invention
1834[3]
🏷️ Also known as
en soliton en soliton wave ar سوليتون cs solitony de Solitonen de Solitäre Welle es Onda solitaria es Soliton es solitón fa سالیتون fa سولیتون fa سولیتون ها fi solitoni fr onde solitaire he סוליטון hu szoliton it solitone it Solitoni ja ソリトン ko 솔리톤
🔖 Identifiers · 27
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85124672
GND ID
4135213-0
OpenAlex ID
C87651913
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Soliton hydro.jpg ↗
BNCF Thesaurus ID
49064
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
121208158
Dewey Decimal Classification
530.124
Encyclopedia of China (Second Edition) ID
204592
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/soliton
Freebase ID
/m/0dm85
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
soliton
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
3634157
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J9U entity ID
987007556069305171
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
solitons
Krugosvet article (archived)
nauka_i_tehnika/fizika/SOLITON.html
MathWorld ID
Soliton
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
87651913
NDL Authority ID
00576468
NL CR AUT ID
ph161651
Namuwiki ID
솔리톤
PSH ID
3139
ScienceDirect topic ID
chemistry/soliton
Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy ID
solitons
Stack Exchange tag
math.stackexchange.com, physics.stackexchange.com
Topic's main category
Category:Solitons
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
07360944-n
Yale LUX ID
concept/9ac88c30-e095-471a-a32e-f89fc3b83d1f

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🔗 Connections
Subtypes 4
instanton, magnetic domain wall, NS5-brane, optical soliton
Discoverer or inventor 1
John Scott Russell
Maintained by WikiProject 1
WikiProject Mathematics
Subclass of 1
wave
Topic's main category 1
Category:Solitons
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Solitons
← References work, tradition or theory 1
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soliton is a type of wave[1].

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  1. 4d ago · InternetArchiveBot bot · 2026-11-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  2. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Discoverer or inventor → John Scott Russell
    Subclass of → wave
    Maintained by WikiProject → WikiProject Mathematics, WikiProject Fluid dynamics
    Different from → Soliton
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007556069305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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