Beaufort scale vs metric

metric vs Beaufort scale

Beaufort scale and metric both are nouns.

Beaufort scale is not an adjective while metric is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Beaufort scale	Yes	No	No	No
metric	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, metric is a hypernym of Beaufort scale; that is, metric is a word with a broader meaning than Beaufort scale:

Beaufort scale: a scale from 0 to 12 for the force of the wind
metric: a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic

Other hypernyms of Beaufort scale include system of measurement.

Beaufort scale (noun)	metric (noun)
a scale from 0 to 12 for the force of the wind	a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
an international scale of wind force from 0 (calm air) to 12 (hurricane)	a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)
	a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them

Beaufort scale (adjective)	metric (adjective)
	based on the meter as a standard of measurement
	the rhythmic arrangement of syllables

Difference between Beaufort scale and metric

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