English Explanatory Dictionary

rayleigh

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A unit of brightness (of the sky at night) equal to 10¹⁰/4π quanta per square meter per second per steradian
name
  1. A surname.
  2. Lord Rayleigh, English physicist
  3. A town and civil parish with a town council in Rochford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ8090).
  4. A neighbourhood of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, named after the English town.

Pronunciation

/ˈreɪli/

Word forms

rayleigh rayleighs

Etymology

For Lord Rayleigh, English physicist

Related words

Raleigh

Derived words

kilorayleigh megarayleigh Rayleigh-Bénard convection Rayleigh-Jeans law Rayleigh scattering
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