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Rayleigh may refer to:

Science

• 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, a dimensionless number for a fluid associated with buoyancy driven flow
• Rayleigh quotient
• Rayleigh–Ritz method
• 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

Title of nobility

• Baron Rayleigh
  • Charlotte Mary Gertrude Strutt, 1st Baroness Rayleigh
  • John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, physicist, winner of a Nobel Prize in 1904
  • Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, physicist; son of John William Strutt

Fictional name

• Silvers Rayleigh, a fictional character in One Piece

Places

• Rayleigh, British Columbia, Canada
• Rayleigh, Essex, England
  • Rayleigh (constituency)
• Rayleigh (lunar crater)
• Rayleigh (Martian crater)

See also

• Raleigh (disambiguation) for a different spelling