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Beau·fort scale (bō′fərt)

a scale of wind force and speed

Etymology: after Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1857), Brit naval officer who devised the original scale (1806)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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