Beaufort scale

English

Etymology

Created by Irish hydrographer and British navy officer Francis Beaufort in 1806.

Proper noun

Beaufort scale

1. (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

Related terms

• wind force

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

  Roman: 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

Further reading

• Beaufort scale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia