Rayleigh

[ rey-lee ]

/ ˈreɪ li /

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noun

John William Strutt

[struht], /strʌt/, 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel Prize 1904.

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How to use Rayleigh in a sentence

It show how long the wavelength of Rayleigh waves need to be to trigger Pacinian touch receptors in a mammal’s skin.
A sense of touch could upgrade virtual reality, prosthetics and more|Kathiann Kowalski|October 7, 2021|Science News For Students
For the most part, a touch at the surface will trigger a response in a Pacinian receptor deep in the skin if the ratio is 5-to-2 between the length of the Rayleigh waves resulting from the touch and the depth of the receptor.
Capturing the sense of touch could upgrade prosthetics and our digital lives|Kathiann Kowalski|April 22, 2021|Science News
Rolling-type waves called Rayleigh waves go deep enough to reach the Pacinian receptors, the team reported last October in Science Advances.
Capturing the sense of touch could upgrade prosthetics and our digital lives|Kathiann Kowalski|April 22, 2021|Science News
Argon, ar′gon, n. a constituent element of our atmosphere, discovered in 1894 by Rayleigh and Ramsay.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)|Various

The news that Rayleigh and Hockley had also been abandoned by the enemy came in shortly afterwards.
The Invasion|William Le Queux
George had also the advantage of knowing Lord Rayleigh at Cambridge, and retained his friendship through his life.
Rustic Sounds|Francis Darwin
Eggs are also sent to the Rayleigh Dairies in vast quantities.
The Danes in Lancashire and Yorkshire|S. W. Partington
To Rayleigh, however, such a procedure was inadmissible, and he sought for an explanation of his results.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, May, 1900|Various

British Dictionary definitions for Rayleigh

Rayleigh

/ (ˈreɪlɪ) /

noun

Lord, title of John William Strutt, 1842–1919, British physicist. He discovered argon (1894) with Ramsay and made important contributions to the theory of sound, the theory of scattering of radiation, etc. Nobel prize for physics 1904

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Scientific definitions for Rayleigh

Rayleigh

[ rā′lē ]

Third Baron Title of John William Strutt 1842-1919

British physicist whose investigation of the densities of gases led to his discovery (with Sir William Ramsay) of the noble gas argon in 1894. For this work he won the 1904 Nobel Prize for physics.