Terminal velocity

Quality:

Terminal velocity - highest velocity attainable by an object as it falls through a fluid. Article "Terminal velocity" in English Wikipedia has 34.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 7 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In June 2025 the article "Terminal velocity" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Terminal velocity", its content was written by 343 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 676 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 167 times in English Wikipedia and cited 544 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4145 in October 2012
• Global: #8881 in November 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2086 in October 2012
• Global: #5636 in October 2012

There are 29 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Turkish (tr) Terminal hızı		35.5439
2	English (en) Terminal velocity		34.3648
3	Chinese (zh) 終端速度		31.1543
4	Japanese (ja) 終端速度		27.6701
5	Malay (ms) Halaju terminal		20.8954
6	Swedish (sv) Gränshastighet		20.8776
7	Simple English (simple) Terminal velocity		20.7361
8	Catalan (ca) Velocitat límit		19.1005
9	Finnish (fi) Rajanopeus		18.1349
10	Croatian (hr) Terminalna brzina		16.24

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Terminal velocity		7 983 357
2	Spanish (es) Velocidad límite		629 989
3	Polish (pl) Prędkość graniczna		298 390
4	Japanese (ja) 終端速度		267 369
5	Chinese (zh) 終端速度		236 947
6	French (fr) Vitesse terminale		206 165
7	Italian (it) Velocità limite (fluidodinamica)		186 902
8	Dutch (nl) Eindsnelheid		143 690
9	Portuguese (pt) Velocidade terminal		137 102
10	Arabic (ar) سرعة حدية		85 322

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Terminal velocity		15 548
2	French (fr) Vitesse terminale		1 247
3	Spanish (es) Velocidad límite		842
4	Japanese (ja) 終端速度		828
5	Chinese (zh) 終端速度		796
6	Simple English (simple) Terminal velocity		712
7	Polish (pl) Prędkość graniczna		478
8	Italian (it) Velocità limite (fluidodinamica)		432
9	Korean (ko) 종단속도		397
10	Portuguese (pt) Velocidade terminal		261

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Terminal velocity		343
2	Dutch (nl) Eindsnelheid		34
3	Norwegian (no) Terminalfart		29
4	Spanish (es) Velocidad límite		26
5	Italian (it) Velocità limite (fluidodinamica)		25
6	Simple English (simple) Terminal velocity		22
7	Polish (pl) Prędkość graniczna		21
8	French (fr) Vitesse terminale		19
9	Portuguese (pt) Velocidade terminal		18
10	Swedish (sv) Gränshastighet		16

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Chinese (zh) 終端速度		2
2	English (en) Terminal velocity		1
3	Persian (fa) سرعت حد		1
4	Arabic (ar) سرعة حدية		0
5	Catalan (ca) Velocitat límit		0
6	Spanish (es) Velocidad límite		0
7	Basque (eu) Abiadura muga		0
8	Finnish (fi) Rajanopeus		0
9	French (fr) Vitesse terminale		0
10	Hindi (hi) अंतिम गति		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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