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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 587 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SCALE
SCALE (1) A
SCALE , a See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of See also:

numbers from o to 12 arranged by See also:

ADMIRAL

Admiral See also:

SIR

Sir See also:

Francis Beaufort (1774-1857) in 1805, to indicate the strength of the See also:

wind from a See also:

CALM

calm, force o, to a See also:

HURRICANE

hurricane, force 12, with sailing directions such as " 5, smacks shorten sails " for See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast purposes, and " royals, &c., ` full and by ' " for the open See also:

sea. An exhaustive See also:

REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report was made in 1906 by the Meteorological See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

Office on the relation between the estimates of wind-force according to Beaufort's scale and the velocities recorded by anemometers belonging to the office, from which the following table is taken: Beaufort scale. Corresponding wind. Limits of hourly velocity. Numbers. Calm See also:

MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

Miles per See also:

HOUR

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