Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rayleigh

1 sense of rayleigh

Sense 1
Rayleigh, Third Baron Rayleigh, Lord Rayleigh, John William Strutt -- (English physicist who studied the density of gases and discovered argon; made important contributions to acoustic theory (1842-1919))
       INSTANCE OF=> physicist -- (a scientist trained in physics)