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Definition: Rayleigh |
RayleighNoun1. English physicist who studied the density of gases and discovered argon; made important contributions to acoustic theory (1842-1919). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: RayleighSynonyms: John William Strutt (n), Lord Rayleigh (n), Third Baron Rayleigh (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Rayleigh |
| English words defined with "Rayleigh": Lord Rayleigh ♦ Rayleigh disk ♦ Third Baron Rayleigh. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Rayleigh": cloud attenuation ♦ ground roll ♦ Mie Scattering, Mie theory ♦ natural visibility conditions, neutral point, nondimensional number ♦ Rayleigh atmosphere, Rayleigh distribution, Rayleigh formula, Rayleigh Frequency Distribution, Rayleigh law, Rayleigh limit, rayleigh scattering, Rayleigh tests, Rayleigh wave ♦ seismic wave, surface wave, Surface Waves. (references) |
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| "Rayleigh" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Rayleigh" is used about 75 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 75 | 38,535 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Rayleigh": Lord Rayleigh ♦ Rayleigh disk ♦ Rayleigh distribution ♦ Rayleigh tests ♦ third Baron Rayleigh. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Rayleigh": Rayleigh-Jeans. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rayleigh | 19 |
rayleigh scattering | 14 |
rayleigh distribution | 11 |
lord rayleigh | 4 |
co.uk contact essex rayleigh | 3 |
rayleigh wave | 3 |
convection cylinder horizontal rayleigh | 2 |
criterion rayleigh | 2 |
rayleigh fading | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Rayleigh"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | Rayleigh-tests (Rayleigh tests), Rayleigh-Taylorinstabilitet (centrifugal instability, Rayleigh Taylor instability), Rayleigh-Jeans lov (Rayleigh-Jeans law), centrifugalinstabilitet (centrifugal instability, Rayleigh Taylor instability). (various references) | |
Dutch | Rayleigh-testen (Rayleigh tests), Rayleigh-Taylorinstabiliteit (centrifugal instability, Rayleigh Taylor instability), stralingswet van Rayleigh-Jeans (Rayleigh-Jeans law). (various references) | |
Finnish | Rayleigh-Taylor-epästabiilisuus (centrifugal instability, Rayleigh Taylor instability), Rayleigh'n-Jeansin laki (Rayleigh-Jeans law), Rayleighin testi (Rayleigh tests). (various references) | |
French | tests de Rayleigh (Rayleigh tests), loi de Rayleigh-Jeans (Rayleigh-Jeans law), instabilité Rayleigh-Taylor (Rayleigh Taylor instability), instabilité de rotation (Rayleigh Taylor instability). (various references) | |
German | Rayleigh-Tests (Rayleigh tests), Rayleigh-Taylor-Instabilitaet (centrifugal instability, Rayleigh Taylor instability), Zentrifugalinstabilitaet (centrifugal instability, Rayleigh Taylor instability), Gesetz von Rayleigh-Jeans (Rayleigh-Jeans law). (various references) | |
Greek | έλεγχοι Rayleigh (Rayleigh tests), νόμος του Ράλεϊ-Τζινς (Rayleigh-Jeans law), φυγόκεντρος αστάθεια (centrifugal instability, Rayleigh Taylor instability), αστάθεια Rayleigh-Taylor (centrifugal instability, Rayleigh Taylor instability). (various references) | |
Italian | test di Rayleigh (Rayleigh tests), legge di Rayleigh-Jeans (Rayleigh-Jeans law), instabilit di rotazione (centrifugal instability, Rayleigh Taylor instability), instabilit di Rayleigh Taylor (centrifugal instability, Rayleigh Taylor instability). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ayleighray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lei de Rayleigh-Jeans (Rayleigh-Jeans law), instabilidade Rayleigh-Taylor (centrifugal instability, Rayleigh Taylor instability), instabilidade da rotação (centrifugal instability, Rayleigh Taylor instability). (various references) | |
Spanish | pruebas de Rayleigh (Rayleigh tests), ley de Rayleigh-Jeans (Rayleigh-Jeans law), inestabilidad Rayleigh-Taylor (centrifugal instability, Rayleigh Taylor instability), inestabilidad de rotación (centrifugal instability, Rayleigh Taylor instability), inestabilidad centrífuga (centrifugal instability, Rayleigh Taylor instability). (various references) | |
Swedish | Rayleigh-Taylorinstabilitet (centrifugal instability, Rayleigh Taylor instability), Rayleigh-Jeans lag (Rayleigh-Jeans law), centrifugalinstabilitet (centrifugal instability, Rayleigh Taylor instability). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-i-l-r-y" | |
-2 letters: aerily, argyle, glaire, glairy, hailer, hegari, hegira. | |
-3 letters: agile, agley, argil, argle, ariel, early, gaily, gayer, gerah, girly, glair, glare, glary, grail, gyral, hairy, haler, hayer, hilar, lager, laigh, large, layer, leary, liger, regal, relay, riley, riyal, yager. | |
-4 letters: aery, ager, agly, airy, aril, aryl, earl, egal, elhi, eyra, gale, gear, girl, gley, glia, gray, grey, gyre, gyri, hail, hair, hale, hare, harl, heal, hear, heil, heir, herl, hila, hire, hyla, ilea, lair, lari, lear, lehr, liar, lier, lira, lire, lyre, rage, ragi, rail, rale, real, rely, rhea, rial, riel, rile, yagi, yare, yeah, year. | |
-5 letters: age, ail, air, ale, are, aye, ear, era, erg, gae, gal, gar, gay, gel, gey, ghi, gie, hae, hag, hay, her, hey, hie, ire, lag, lar, lay, lea, leg, lei, ley, lie, lye, rag, rah, ray, reg, rei, ria, rig, rya, rye, yah, yar, yea, yeh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-i-l-r-y" | |
+3 letters: preachingly, searchingly. | |
+4 letters: bigheartedly, farsightedly, hearteningly, lexicography, shatteringly, xylographies. | |
+5 letters: copyrightable, graphemically, hyperglycemia, hypervigilant, lethargically, nearsightedly, reproachingly, rheologically, stylographies, threateningly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 79 6C 65 69 67 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- -.--. .-.. . .. --. .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01111001 01101100 01100101 01101001 01100111 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a y l e i g h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0079 006C 0065 0069 0067 0068 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5267917871757374 |
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