waterfall

place where water flows over a steep or vertical drop
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waterfall

Summary

waterfall has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[1]

Key Facts

  • waterfall is a type of natural geographic object[2].
  • waterfall is a type of body of water[3].
  • waterfall is a type of landform[4].
  • waterfall is part of watercourse[5].
  • waterfall's Commons category is recorded as Waterfalls[6].
  • waterfall comprises watercourse[7].
  • waterfall comprises cliff[8].
  • waterfall comprises Q46867411[9].
  • waterfall's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Waterfalls[10].
  • waterfall's Commons gallery is recorded as Waterfall[11].
  • waterfall's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as waterway=waterfall[12].
  • waterfall's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • waterfall's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[14].
  • waterfall's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • waterfall's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[16].
  • waterfall's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17].
  • waterfall's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[18].
  • waterfall's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox waterfall[19].
  • waterfall's has characteristic is recorded as height[20].
  • waterfall's has characteristic is recorded as volume flow rate[21].
  • waterfall's has characteristic is recorded as fall[22].
  • waterfall's manifestation of is recorded as geomorphology[23].
  • waterfall's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/Waterfall[24].
  • waterfall's different from is recorded as Cascata[25].
  • waterfall's properties for this type is recorded as P361[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include natural geographic object[2], body of water[3], and landform[4].

Use and Application

Components include watercourse[7], a feature type[27]; cliff[8]; and Q46867411[9]. waterfall is part of watercourse[5].

Influence

Things named for waterfall include RPK-6 Vodopad/RPK-7 Veter[28], a missile model[29] and Fallingwater[30], a single-family detached home[31], in United States[32], founded in 1936[33].

Why It Matters

waterfall has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[1] waterfall is known by 36 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Entities named for waterfall include RPK-6 Vodopad/RPK-7 Veter[28], a missile model[29] and Fallingwater[30], a single-family detached home[31], in United States[32], founded in 1936[33].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [34] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag waterfalls
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: waterfalls, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289970965|waterfalls (#289970965)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  2. 24d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id 0258124-vodopady
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0258124-vodopady, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
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