tear

Summary

tear ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (876 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• tear took place at eye^[2].
• tear is a type of body fluid^[3].
• tear's Commons category is recorded as Tears^[4].
• tear's Unicode character is recorded as 💧^[5].
• tear comprises water^[6].
• tear comprises sodium chloride^[7].
• tear's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Tears^[8].
• tear's Commons gallery is recorded as Tears^[9].
• tear's facet of is recorded as crying^[10].
• tear's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[11].
• tear's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary^[12].
• tear's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 2^[13].
• tear's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[14].
• tear's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language^[15].
• tear's produced by is recorded as lacrimal apparatus^[16].
• tear's subject has role is recorded as cleaning^[17].

Body

Definition and Type

tear is a type of body fluid^[3].

Use and Application

Components include water^[6], a type of chemical entity^[18] and sodium chloride^[7], a type of chemical entity^[19].

Why It Matters

tear ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (876 views/month).^[1] tear has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[20] tear is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[21]