wind scale

1. 1.

   an international scale of wind force from 0 (calm air) to 12 (hurricane)

   SynonymsBeaufort scale

   Broaderscale

   Partscalm airlight airlight breezegentle breezemoderate breezefresh breeze

Questions about wind scale

What does wind scale mean?

wind scale means "an international scale of wind force from 0 (calm air) to 12 (hurricane)".

What is another word for wind scale?

Close synonyms include Beaufort 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 wind scale a common word?

wind 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.