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fujita scale

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.41 in modern English

Syllables
fu-ji-ta s-cale
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A scale used to rate the intensity of a tornado; now superseded by the Enhanced Fujita scale.

American usage

Etymology

From the Japanese-American meteorologist Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita (藤田哲也).

Usage

Inflected Forms

the Fujita scale (canonical)

Phrases

Enhanced Fujita scale Richter scale Torino scale

Frequently Paired Words

EF F Richter scale Torino scale

Synonyms

Fujita-Pearson scale

Questions

What does fujita scale mean?
A scale used to rate the intensity of a tornado; now superseded by the Enhanced Fujita scale.
Where does fujita scale come from?
From the Japanese-American meteorologist Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita (藤田哲也).

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