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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Beaufort scale /ˈbəʊfət/

▶noun a scale of wind speed ranging from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane).

– origin C19: named after Sir Francis Beaufort, the English admiral who devised it.

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