English
Etymology
Created by Irish hydrographer and British navy officer Francis Beaufort in 1806.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Beaufort scale
- (nautical) An empirical measure for the intensity of the wind based mainly on the state of the sea or wave conditions.
Synonyms
- Beaufort wind force scale
Translations
measure for the intensity of the wind
- Arabic: مقياس بوفورت m (miqyās bufurt)
- Armenian: Բոֆորտի սանդղակ (Boforti sandġak)
- Basque: Beaufort eskala
- Belarusian: шкала Бафорта f (škala Bafórta)
- Bulgarian: скала Бофортова f (skala Bofortova)
- Catalan: escala de Beaufort f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 蒲福氏風級 / 蒲福氏风级 (púfúshìfēngjí)
- Czech: Beaufortova stupnice f
- Danish: Beaufort-skalaen c
- Dutch: schaal van Beaufort f
- Esperanto: Boforta skalo
- Estonian: Beauforti skaala
- Finnish: Beaufortin asteikko, boforiasteikko
- French: échelle de Beaufort (fr) f
- Georgian: ბოფორტის სკალა (boporṭis sḳala), ბოფორტის შკალა (boporṭis šḳala)
- German: Beaufortskala (de) f
- Greek: κλίμακα Μποφόρ (el) f (klímaka Bofór)
- Hebrew: סולם בופורט m (sulam Bofort)
- Hungarian: Beaufort-skála (hu)
- Icelandic: Beaufort-kvarðinn
- Italian: scala di Beaufort f
- Japanese: ビューフォート風力階級 (ビューフォートふうりょくかいきゅう, Byūfōto fūryoku kaikyū)
- Kazakh: Бофорт шкаласы (Bofort şkalasy)
- Korean: 보퍼트 풍력 계급 (bopeoteu pungnyeok gyegeup)
- Latvian: Boforta skala f
- Lithuanian: Boforto skalė f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: beaufortskala m
- Nynorsk: beaufortskala m
- Polish: skala Beauforta (pl) f
- Portuguese: escala de Beaufort f
- Romanian: scala Beaufort f, scala de vânt Beaufort f
- Russian: шкала́ Бофо́рта f (škalá Bofórta)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Бофорова скала f
- Latin: Beaufortova skala f
- Slovak: Beaufortova stupnica f
- Slovene: Beaufortova lestvica f
- Spanish: escala de Beaufort f
- Swedish: Beauforts skala c, Beaufortskalan c
- Turkish: Beaufort rüzgâr skalası
- Ukrainian: шкала́ Бофо́рта f (škalá Bofórta)
- Vietnamese: thang sức gió Beaufort
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