Usually means: Measure of light scattering particles.
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  1. Rayleigh: Merriam-Webster
  2. Rayleigh: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. Rayleigh: Wordnik
  5. Rayleigh, rayleigh: Wiktionary
  6. Rayleigh: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. Rayleigh: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Rayleigh: Dictionary.com
  9. Rayleigh (Martian crater), Rayleigh (UK Parliament constituency), Rayleigh (lunar crater), Rayleigh (unit): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Rayleigh: Rhymezone
  11. rayleigh: FreeDictionary.org
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  14. Rayleigh: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Rayleigh (disambiguation), rayleigh: Encyclopedia

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  1. Rayleigh: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Rayleigh: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality (No longer online)
  4. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

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  1. Rayleigh: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Rayleigh)

noun:  (physics, astronomy) A unit of brightness (of the sky at night) equal to 10¹⁰/4π quanta per square meter per second per steradian
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Lord Rayleigh, English physicist
noun:  A town and civil parish with a town council in Rochford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ8090).
noun:  A neighbourhood of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, named after the English town.

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