Lambda

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lambda \Lamb"da\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. la`mbda.]
     1. The name of the Greek letter [Lambda], [lambda],
        corresponding with the English letter L, l.
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     2. (Anat.) The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid


        sutures of the skull.
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     3. (Phys.) A subatomic particle carrying no charge, having a
        mass equal to 2183 times that of an electron; it decays
        rapidly, typically forming a nucleon and a pion. --MW10
        [PJC]
  
     {Lambda moth} (Zool.), a moth so called from a mark on its
        wings, resembling the Greek letter lambda ([Lambda]).
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lambda
       n 1: the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet
       2: the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and
          lamboid sutures of the skull

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  LAMBDA
       
          A version of {typed lambda-calculus}, used to describe
          semantic {domain}s.
       
          ["Outline of a Mathematical Theory of Computation",
          D.S. Scott, TM PRG-2, PRG, Oxford U, 1971].