| n. | 1. | The name of the Greek letter | |||
| 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.
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| Noun | 1. | lambda - the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet |
| 2. | lambda - the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and lamboid sutures of the skull |
| LAMBDA - A version of typed lambda-calculus, used to describe
semantic domains. ["Outline of a Mathematical Theory of Computation", D.S. Scott, TM PRG-2, PRG, Oxford U, 1971]. |
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