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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
Beaufort scale
 
SYLLABICATION:Beau·fort scale
PRONUNCIATION:  bfrt
NOUN: A scale of wind velocity ranging from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane).
ETYMOLOGY:After Sir Francis Beaufort (1774–1857), British naval officer.
 
 
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