Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun beaufort_scale

2 senses of beaufort scale

Sense 1
Beaufort scale, wind scale -- (an international scale of wind force from 0 (calm air) to 12 (hurricane))
       => scale, scale of measurement, graduated table, ordered series -- (an ordered reference standard; "judging on a scale of 1 to 10")

Sense 2
Beaufort scale -- (a scale from 0 to 12 for the force of the wind)
       => system of measurement, metric -- (a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic)