wind wave

surface waves that occur on the free surface of bodies of water
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wind wave

Summary

wind wave ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (630 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • The location of wind wave was body of water[2].
  • wind wave is a type of surface wave[3].
  • wind wave's Commons category is recorded as Water waves[4].
  • wind wave's Unicode character is recorded as 🌊[5].
  • wind wave's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Water waves[6].
  • wind wave's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[7].
  • wind wave's described by source is recorded as Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste[8].
  • wind wave's produced sound is recorded as Q110068397[9].
  • wind wave's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[10].
  • wind wave's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Fluid dynamics[11].

Body

Definition and Type

wind wave is a type of surface wave[3].

Influence

Things named for wind wave include Mare Undarum[12], a lunar mare[13].

Why It Matters

wind wave ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (630 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Entities named for it include Mare Undarum[12], a lunar mare[13].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . 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.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [12] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [13] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Location body of water
    Aliases
    Subclass of surface wave
    Produced sound Q110068397
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 1191, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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