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The 17 pages that link to Rayleigh criterion, each with the reason it gives.

• DiffractionRelated: It estimates the resolution limit imposed by diffraction from a circular aperture.

• PhotolithographyRelated: Its resolution relationship helps explain optical limits in projection lithography.

• Angular resolutionRelated: It gives a conventional threshold for the separation that counts as resolved.

• Point spread functionRelated: It uses the Airy-pattern PSF to set a conventional separation threshold.

• Diffraction limitRelated: It translates diffraction patterns into a practical threshold for separating nearby sources.

• Optical resolutionRelated: It turns overlapping diffraction patterns into a conventional separation threshold.

• Spectral resolutionRelated: It supplies one practical threshold for calling two spectral lines resolved.

• Airy diskRelated: It uses the Airy disk’s first dark ring to define a resolution threshold.

• Fraunhofer diffractionRelated: Its resolution limit is derived from overlap between circular-aperture Fraunhofer patterns.

• Wave opticsRelated: Diffraction places a wave-based limit on how finely an instrument can resolve detail.

• Taylor–Couette flowRelated: It predicts instability when angular momentum decreases outward, though viscosity alters the threshold.

• Diffraction-limited systemRelated: Its conventional separation threshold is not a universal boundary on all image reconstruction.