plural of rayleigh

(physics, astronomy) A unit of brightness (of the sky at night) equal to 10¹⁰/4π quanta per square meter per second per steradian

A surname. / Lord Rayleigh, English physicist / A town and civil parish with a town council in Rochford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ8090).

The elastic scattering of light or other electromagnetic radiation by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the light.

plural of Rayleigh wave

(physics) A kind of surface acoustic wave that travels on solids.

plural of Rayleigh scattering

plural of Rayleigh jet

A central jet that protrudes from the centre of the "crater" formed by a drop landing on the surface of a fluid.

(mathematics) A formula used in the min-max theorem to find exact eigenvalues, and in eigenvalue algorithms to obtain an eigenvalue approximation from an eigenvector approximation; it has applications in quantum mechanics.