type case

compartmentalized wooden box used to store movable type used in letterpress printing
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type case

Summary

type case ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (27 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • type case's image is recorded as Casse de typographe, Grandjean - musée Champollion.JPG[2].
  • type case's GND ID is recorded as 4722951-2[3].
  • type case's subclass of is recorded as container[4].
  • type case's subclass of is recorded as typesetting equipment[5].
  • type case's Commons category is recorded as Type cases[6].
  • type case's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/043k6r2[7].
  • type case's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300410328[8].
  • type case's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0165587[9].
  • type case's used by is recorded as typesetter[10].
  • type case's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as settekasse[11].
  • type case's TDKIV term ID is recorded as 000002511[12].
  • type case's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 11130[13].
  • type case's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 02979048-n[14].
  • type case's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as caixa-dimpremta[15].
  • type case's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 5898[16].
  • type case's TDKIV Wikibase ID is recorded as April 7[17].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for type case include letter case[18].

Why It Matters

type case ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (27 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Entities named for it include letter case[18].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . Wikibase TDKIV. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [18] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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