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Ostensive definition

Quality:

Ostensive definition - conveying the meaning of a term by pointing out examples. Article “Ostensive definition” in English Wikipedia has 13.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in Romanian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Ostensive definition”, its content was written by 58 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 123 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 40 times in English Wikipedia and cited 96 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #59757 in October 2014
  • Global: #93999 in September 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #253850 in February 2008
  • Global: #248953 in June 2015

There are 9 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Romanian (ro)
Definiție ostensivă
24.1462
2Czech (cs)
Ostenzivní definice
21.7405
3English (en)
Ostensive definition
13.755
4Russian (ru)
Остенсивное определение
10.7783
5French (fr)
Définition ostensive
7.2328
6Spanish (es)
Definición ostensiva
6.4545
7Swedish (sv)
Ostension
3.5748
8Japanese (ja)
直示的定義
2.2531
9Estonian (et)
Ostensiivne definitsioon
2.121
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Ostensive definition" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Ostensive definition
418 484
2Spanish (es)
Definición ostensiva
141 797
3Russian (ru)
Остенсивное определение
31 256
4French (fr)
Définition ostensive
30 256
5Swedish (sv)
Ostension
17 677
6Japanese (ja)
直示的定義
13 905
7Romanian (ro)
Definiție ostensivă
7 376
8Estonian (et)
Ostensiivne definitsioon
3 861
9Czech (cs)
Ostenzivní definice
1 204
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Ostensive definition" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Ostensive definition
1 418
2French (fr)
Définition ostensive
154
3Spanish (es)
Definición ostensiva
119
4Russian (ru)
Остенсивное определение
91
5Japanese (ja)
直示的定義
64
6Swedish (sv)
Ostension
36
7Czech (cs)
Ostenzivní definice
23
8Romanian (ro)
Definiție ostensivă
17
9Estonian (et)
Ostensiivne definitsioon
11
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Ostensive definition" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Ostensive definition
58
2French (fr)
Définition ostensive
29
3Spanish (es)
Definición ostensiva
11
4Swedish (sv)
Ostension
8
5Japanese (ja)
直示的定義
5
6Czech (cs)
Ostenzivní definice
4
7Estonian (et)
Ostensiivne definitsioon
4
8Romanian (ro)
Definiție ostensivă
2
9Russian (ru)
Остенсивное определение
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Ostensive definition" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Japanese (ja)
直示的定義
1
2Czech (cs)
Ostenzivní definice
0
3English (en)
Ostensive definition
0
4Spanish (es)
Definición ostensiva
0
5Estonian (et)
Ostensiivne definitsioon
0
6French (fr)
Définition ostensive
0
7Romanian (ro)
Definiție ostensivă
0
8Russian (ru)
Остенсивное определение
0
9Swedish (sv)
Ostension
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Ostensive definition" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Ostensive definition
40
2Spanish (es)
Definición ostensiva
12
3French (fr)
Définition ostensive
10
4Swedish (sv)
Ostension
9
5Estonian (et)
Ostensiivne definitsioon
8
6Japanese (ja)
直示的定義
5
7Russian (ru)
Остенсивное определение
5
8Romanian (ro)
Definiție ostensivă
4
9Czech (cs)
Ostenzivní definice
3
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
csCzech
Ostenzivní definice
enEnglish
Ostensive definition
esSpanish
Definición ostensiva
etEstonian
Ostensiivne definitsioon
frFrench
Définition ostensive
jaJapanese
直示的定義
roRomanian
Definiție ostensivă
ruRussian
Остенсивное определение
svSwedish
Ostension

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#253850
02.2008
Global:
#248953
06.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#59757
10.2014
Global:
#93999
09.2011

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Ostensive definition from Wikipedia articles about Definition, Intension and extension, Free indirect speech, Philosophical Investigations and Private language argument. Whereas reading the article about Ostensive definition people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Ostension, Private language argument, Pointing, Intension and extension and Enumerative definition.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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