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The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
C. V. Raman

Meaning of "Rayleigh" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF RAYLEIGH

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RAYLEIGH

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Rayleigh is a noun.
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WHAT DOES RAYLEIGH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of Rayleigh in the English dictionary

The definition of Rayleigh in the dictionary is Lord, title of John William Strutt, 1842–1919, British physicist. He discovered argon with Ramsay and made important contributions to the theory of sound, the theory of scattering of radiation, etc. Nobel prize for physics 1904.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RAYLEIGH


bailey
ˈbeɪlɪ
Baillie
ˈbeɪlɪ
Baily
ˈbeɪlɪ
Bareilly
bəˈreɪlɪ
corporale
ˌkɔːpəˈreɪlɪ
daily
ˈdeɪlɪ
Disraeli
dɪzˈreɪlɪ
gayly
ˈɡeɪlɪ
grayly
ˈɡreɪlɪ
greyly
ˈɡreɪlɪ
Haley
ˈheɪlɪ
Israeli
ɪzˈreɪlɪ
Paley
ˈpeɪlɪ
paly
ˈpeɪlɪ
radiale
ˌreɪdɪˈeɪlɪ
scaly
ˈskeɪlɪ
snaily
ˈsneɪlɪ
ukelele
ˌjuːkəˈleɪlɪ
ukulele
ˌjuːkəˈleɪlɪ
wally
ˈweɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RAYLEIGH

Rawsthorne
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ray gun
Ray´s bream
rayah
Raybans
rayed
Rayleigh disc
Rayleigh scattering
rayless
raylessness
raylet
raylike
Raynaud´s
Raynaud´s disease

WORDS THAT END LIKE RAYLEIGH

aweigh
bobsleigh
Burleigh
counterweigh
dog sleigh
dreigh
Eastleigh
foreweigh
inveigh
Leigh
neigh
outweigh
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Raleigh
reweigh
screigh
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sleigh
under weigh
weigh

Synonyms and antonyms of Rayleigh in the English dictionary of synonyms

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رايلي
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Рэлея
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レーリー
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레일리
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Rayleigh
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Rayleigh
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C. V. Raman
The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RAYLEIGH»

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Rayleigh's Principle and Its Applications to Engineering: ...
This text develops Rayleigh's principle in a manner that provides upper and lower estimates of the true value, so that frequencies and critical loads can be determined with close and known degrees of approximation, well within the degree of ...
George Frederick James Temple, William Gee Bickley, W. G. Bickley, 2004
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Energy and Finite Element Methods in Structural Mechanics
7.6 RAYLEIGH-RITZ METHOD FOR BEAMS In the preceding section we used the Rayleigh quotient to give an upper bound to wt , the fundamental frequency of vibration of a beam. Although we presented the Rayleigh quotient in terms of ...
Irving Herman Shames, Clive L. Dym, 1995
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Fundamentals of Structural Stability
5.3 THE RAYLElGH—RlTZ METHOD The Rayleigh-Ritz or simply the Ritz method is explained in Appendix A. As far as buckling problems are concerned, there are two possible applications of the method. The first type of application concerns ...
George J. Simitses, Dewey H. Hodges, 2006
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Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering
-illIt'mm' It has been empirically well established that software projects follow a life- cycle pattern described by the Rayleigh density curve (Norden, 1963; Putnam, 1978). Early applications of the model in software were mainly for staffing ...
Stephen H. Kan, 2003
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Optical Fiber Telecommunications IV-A: Components
The product Baf is the Rayleigh-backscatter coefficient. Experimentally, the Rayleigh backscatter coefficient may be easily determined by measuring the light reflected from a very long length of fiber of known loss, PR(z = 0), using the following ...
Ivan Kaminow, Tingye Li, 2002
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Ambient Noise Surface Wave Tomography Across Europe: ...
Cross-correlations are stacked over the entire time-series and are used to obtain group and phase velocity dispersion curves from 5-100 sec period.
Rachelle Marie Richmond, 2008
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An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering
4.3.1 Rayleigh Curve Staffing in a project, in general, is more a continuous function than a step function with only a few different values. Putnam has proposed a time-dependent continuous function to estimate the staffing at different times ...
Pankaj Jalote, 1997
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Stroh Formalism and Rayleigh Waves
Thus, if there exists v in the subsonic range 0 <v<v L such that the eigenvalue of Z(v) vanishes, then Theorem 3.13 implies that this v is the velocity of the Rayleigh waves vR and, by Theorem 3.14, it is unique. Before proceeding to the ...
Kazumi Tanuma, 2008
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Structural Analysis: With Applications to Aerospace Structures
The Rayleigh-Ritz approach is one of the simplest and will be introduced first. In this approach, the displacement field is represented by a linear combination of preselected displacement shapes, or shape functions, defined over the entire ...
O. A. Bauchau, James I. Craig, 2009
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Detonation: Theory and Experiment
A typical set of isentropes and Hugoniot curves are shown in Fig. 5. la. The properties which we emphasize are 1. Each isentrope has one and only one point at which a Rayleigh line through PO.vO is tangent to it in the p-v plane. The locus of ...
Wildon Fickett, William C. Davis, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RAYLEIGH»

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Rayleigh grandfather smashes own world record jump
A DAREDEVIL grandfather is on top of the world after smashing his own world record with a deathdefying bungee jump, Former cabbie Ray Woodcock, 73, ... «Echo, Jul 15»
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UPDATED WITH VIDEO: Runaway lorry crashes into Rayleigh home
A police spokeswoman said: Police were called at 8.10am today to reports that a road sweeper was in collision with a house in Claremont Crescent, Rayleigh, ... «Echo, Jun 15»
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Four illegal workers found in immigration raid on Rayleigh restaurant
FOUR illegal immigrants were arrested by border force officers after a raid on an award-winning Indian restaurant in Rayleigh. The UK Border Force arrested ... «Echo, Jun 15»
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Two men taken to hospital after brawl in Rayleigh High Street
"If you were in Rayleigh High Street in the early hours of Saturday and saw what happened then please call me at Southend Police Station on 101 or ring ... «Echo, Jun 15»
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Rayleigh scattering reveals light propagation in optical nanfibers
The upper image is a zoomed out compilation of the Rayleigh scattering along the nanofiber. The saturated white section is the narrow neck of the nanofiber. «Phys.Org, Jun 15»
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Mini-village of 500 homes could come to Rayleigh
Tory MP Mark Francois objected to the proposals earlier on this year, and retains his concerns after winning his Rayleigh and Wickford seat again in May. «Echo, May 15»
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Rayleigh Light-Scattering Effect: Isolating The Phenomenon Could …
Rayleigh scattering is the process that causes the sky to appear blue when the Sun's photons are scattered by atmospheric molecules on the cosmic microwave ... «Headlines & Global News, May 15»
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Three in hospital after crashes around Rayleigh
Firefighter from Rayleigh Weir and Hawkwell had to cut a woman free from the first ... spokesman said: “We were called at 12.29pm to Hambro Hill in Rayleigh. «Echo, May 15»
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Rayleigh and Wickford stays blue as Mark Francois holds seat
"The electorate of Rayleigh and Wickford have continued to show confidence in me to continue to serve them as their member of Parliament, I hope, for the next ... «Echo, May 15»
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Rayleigh & Wickford hustings: What did your candidates say?
Rayleigh historian Mike Davies chaired the evening's proceedings. He set the tone when he announced with a smile on his face, that he would be “ruling with a ... «Echo, Apr 15»

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