beaufort scale

Questions about beaufort scale

What does beaufort scale mean?

beaufort scale means "an international scale of wind force from 0 (calm air) to 12 (hurricane)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for beaufort scale?

Close synonyms include wind scale. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beaufort scale a common word?

beaufort scale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.