See Also: Rayleigh scattering(encyclopedia)
Rayleigh(dictionary)
Rayleigh test(medicine)
Rayleigh equation(medicine)
Rayleigh criterion(medicine)
Rayleigh, Lord John(medicine)
Scattering(medicine)
scattering(1)(dictionary)
scattering(encyclopedia)
scattering(dictionary)

hunt 2, noun (oh) and Rayleigh scattering (sh)


hunt 2, noun (oh)



2 n [C]
an occasion when people chase animals in order to kill or catch them
lion/rhino/stag etc hunt
[usually singular] a search for someone or something that is difficult to find
hunt for
ĦĦthe hunt for the missing child
the hunt is on
(=used to say that people have started looking for someone or something)
murder hunt
(=a search for a person who has killed someone)
have a hunt around for sth BrE informal (=look for something)
ĦĦI'll have a hunt around for it in my desk.
-see also treasure hunt , witch-hunt
a sporting event in Britain in which people ride on horses and hunt foxes using dogs
in Britain, a group of people who regularly hunt foxes together

Rayleigh scattering (sh)




Dispersion of electromagnetic radiation by particles with radii less than 110 the wavelength of the radiation.

It is named for Baron Rayleigh, who described it in 1871. Since blue light is at the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum, it is scattered in the atmosphere much more than the longer-wavelength red light. This causes the blue colour of the sky, since the observer sees only the scattered light. The Rayleigh laws predict the variation of the intensity and the polarization of scattered light.