Rayleigh may refer to:
Science
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Rayleigh scattering
Rayleigh scattering ( ) is the scattering or deflection of light, or other electromagnetic radiation, by particles with a size much smaller than the wavelength of the radiation. For light frequencies well below the resonance frequency of the scat ...
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Rayleigh–Jeans law
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Rayleigh wave
Rayleigh waves are a type of surface acoustic wave that travel along the surface of solids. They can be produced in materials in many ways, such as by a localized impact or by Piezoelectricity, piezo-electric Interdigital transducer, transduction, ...
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Rayleigh (unit), a unit of photon flux named after the 4th Baron Rayleigh
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Rayl, rayl or Rayleigh, two units of specific acoustic impedance and characteristic acoustic impedance, named after the 3rd Baron Rayleigh
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angular resolution
Angular resolution describes the ability of any image-forming device such as an Optical telescope, optical or radio telescope, a microscope, a camera, or an Human eye, eye, to distinguish small details of an object, thereby making it a major det ...
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Rayleigh distribution
In probability theory and statistics, the Rayleigh distribution is a continuous probability distribution for nonnegative-valued random variables. Up to rescaling, it coincides with the chi distribution with two degrees of freedom.
The distributi ...
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Rayleigh fading
Rayleigh fading is a statistical model for the effect of a propagation environment on a radio signal, such as that used by wireless devices.
Rayleigh fading models assume that the magnitude of a signal that has passed through such a transmission ...
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Rayleigh law on low-field magnetization
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Rayleigh length
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Rayleigh number, a dimensionless number for a fluid associated with buoyancy driven flow
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Rayleigh quotient
In mathematics, the Rayleigh quotient () for a given complex Hermitian matrix M and nonzero vector ''x'' is defined as:R(M,x) = .For real matrices and vectors, the condition of being Hermitian reduces to that of being symmetric, and the conjugat ...
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Rayleigh–Ritz method
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Plateau–Rayleigh instability explains why a falling stream of fluid breaks up into smaller packets
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Rayleigh–Taylor instability an instability of an interface between two fluids
Title of nobility
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Baron Rayleigh
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Charlotte Mary Gertrude Strutt, 1st Baroness Rayleigh
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John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh ( ; 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919), was an English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1904 "for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery ...
, physicist, winner of a Nobel Prize in 1904
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Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, physicist; son of John William Strutt
Fictional name
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Silvers Rayleigh, a fictional character in One Piece
Places
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Rayleigh, British Columbia, Canada
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Rayleigh, Essex
Rayleigh is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Rochford (district), Rochford District in Essex, England; it is located between Chelmsford, Essex, Chelmsford and Southend-on-Sea, east of central London. It had a po ...
, England
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Rayleigh (lunar crater)
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Rayleigh (Martian crater)
See also
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Raleigh (disambiguation) for a different spelling
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