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Rayleigh is a lunar crater that lies along the northeast limb of the Moon . This feature is seen edge-on from Earth , making it difficult to see much detail. In addition, libration effects can completely hide this crater from view. It lies just to the north ...

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n. (context physics astronomy English) A unit of brightness (of the sky at night) equal to 10 10 /4π quanta per square meter per second per steradian

Usage examples of rayleigh.

Marquis and Marchioness of Rayleigh held a great ball and the whole world came to it.

UFO reveries, saw them clearly any number of times, though she got teased, popping in and out of the sky-blue Rayleigh scattering as if through a perfectly elastic sheet, advance units for some other force, some pitiless advent.

I recall offhand, Tywood has published papers on the effect of liquid viscosity on the wings of the Rayleigh line, on higher-orbit field equations, and on spin-orbit coupling of two nucleons, but his main work is on quadrupole moments.

The manufacturing processes conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin ISBN 0 434 01009 X Typeset by SX Composing DTP, Rayleigh, Essex Printed and bound in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St.

I walked beside him and Nicky through the front door of Rayleigh House.

I would write to Savile and ask him to keep her at Rayleigh until I had a place for her.

All the horses can go to Rayleigh until we find you another place to live.

Here, besides several leading men of science from our own country, were Lord Kelvin, Lord Rayleigh, Professor Roentgen, Dr.

Write to Simon and Laraine Gosden, Fantastic Literature, 35 The Ramparts, Rayleigh, Essex SS6 8PY, UK.

Two types of surface waves, named after British physicist Lord Rayleigh and British geophysicist A.

This limit, called the Rayleigh criterion, is proportional to the wavelength of the light being focused divided by the lens aperture.

For this reason, a focus can be achieved that is independent of the aperture of the material and sharper than that predicted by the Rayleigh criterion.

In Basildon and Rayleigh they trigger a panicky dash back to the island by parents and partners working on the mainland.

The station is controlled from Rayleigh and even before the sirens sound, the Chief Inspector for the Division begins pulling men off crime teams and traffic to help with the emergency.

Outside the glary cone of his headlamp's beam, the ice was an intense cobalt blue, an effect caused by the same Rayleigh scattering that blued the color of the sky.