Scientific Terms
- Rayleigh scattering
- Rayleigh–Jeans law
- Rayleigh waves
- Rayleigh (unit), a unit of photon flux named after the 4th Baron Rayleigh
- Rayl, rayl or Rayleigh, two units of specific acoustic impedance and characteristic acoustic impedance, named after the 3rd Baron Rayleigh
- Rayleigh criterion in angular resolution
- Rayleigh distribution
- Rayleigh fading
- Rayleigh law on low-field magnetization
- Rayleigh length
- Rayleigh number
- Rayleigh quotient
- Plateau–Rayleigh instability explains why a falling stream of fluid breaks up into smaller packets
- Rayleigh–Taylor instability an instability of an interface between two fluids
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