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noun

Lambda n.

The name of the Greek letter lambda, corresponding with the English letter L, l.

(Anat.) The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull.

(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.

Lambda moth (Zool.), a moth so called from a mark on its wings, resembling the Greek letter lambda.

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Etymology of 'Lambda'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... (see ALPHABET). Like some other alphabetic symbols it was not borrowed by Greek in its original form. In the very early rock inscriptions of Thera (700-600 B.C.), written from right to left; it appears in a form resembling the ordinary Greek [lambda]; this form apparently arose from writing the Semitic symbol upside down. Its form in inscriptions of Melos, Selinus, Syracuse and elsewhere in the 6th and 5th centuries suggests the influence of Aramaic forms in which the head of the letter is opened, [2]. The Corinthian [3], [4] and [5] ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 - "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" • Various

Words linked to "Lambda" : alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, lambda particle, craniometric point, Trimorphodon lambda, letter, Greek alphabet