rayleigh

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Noun rayleigh has 1 sense

Rayleigh, Third Baron Rayleigh, Lord Rayleigh, John William Strutt - English physicist who studied the density of gases and discovered argon; made important contributions to acoustic theory (1842-1919)
--₁ is a kind of physicist

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Rayleigh

Noun:

1. A town located in Essex, England.

Example sentence: I visited Rayleigh last summer and fell in love with its charming streets.

Noun:

2. A unit of measure for the optical scattering of light in a medium.

Example sentence: The Rayleigh is used to quantify the scattering of sunlight in the Earth's atmosphere.

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