Fujita scale

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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 A scale used to rate the intensity of a tornado; now superseded by the Enhanced Fujita scale.

Word forms

Fujita scale the Fujita scale

Etymology

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

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