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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lambda \Lamb"da\, noun [NL., fr. Gr. la'mbda.]
1. The name of the Greek letter [Lambda], [lambda], corresponding with the English letter L, l.
2. (Anat.) The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull.
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} (Zo["o]l.), a moth so called from a mark on its wings, resembling the Greek letter lambda ([Lambda]).
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lambda
noun
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].
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