- the scattering of light by particles that are very small in relation to the wavelength of the light, and in which the intensity of the scattered light varies inversely with the fourth power of the wavelength.
- a process in which electromagnetic radiation is elastically deflected by particles of matter, without a change of frequency but with a phase change
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