rayleigh

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English

Etymology

For Lord Rayleigh, English physicist

Noun

rayleigh (plural rayleighs)

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  1. (physics, astronomy) A unit of brightness (of the sky at night) equal to 1010/4π quanta per square meter per second per steradian