Lambda

Definitions: Lambda

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.

Date "lambda" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references)

Etymology: Lambda \Lamb"da\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Lambda

Domain	Definitions
Computing	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]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
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Specialty Definition: Lambda (letter)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Lambda (Λ λ) is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet and has a numeric value of 30.

The lower-case letter λ is used as a symbol for:

In physics and radio (and other fields), the wavelength (λ) of a wave.
In biology, the Lambda phage virus.
In Lambda calculus and by extension some programming languages, lambda notation is used to define functions anonymously.
Gay pride (explanations for this usage vary).

See also:

Alpha - Beta - Gamma - Delta - Epsilon - Digamma - Zeta - Eta - Theta - Iota - Kappa - Lambda - Mu - Nu - Xi - Omicron - Pi - San - Qoppa - Rho - Sigma - Tau - Upsilon - Phi - Chi - Psi - Omega - Sampi

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lambda (letter)."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Lambda

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
LAMBDA	English	Local administration management building and development	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: Lambda

English words defined with "lambda": lambda hyperon, Lambda moth, lambda particle, Lambdoid ♦ Trimorphodon lambda. (references)

Specialty definitions using "lambda": alpha conversion ♦ Bacteriophage lambda, beta abstraction, beta reduction, bound variable, Bragg angle ♦ call-by-need, characteristic constant, characteristic number, characteristic root, characteristic value, cI protein, closure conversion, combinator, constant applicative form, Cosmids ♦ De Bruijn notation, double Poisson distribution ♦ eigenvalue, esim ♦ free variable, full laziness, fully lazy lambda lifting, fundamental number ♦ Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte, Light Chain ♦ head normal form ♦ Immunoglobulins, Light-Chain, Integrase ♦ Knights of the Lambda Calculus ♦ lambda abstraction, lambda expression, lambda lifting, lambda plate, latent root, lenient evaluation ♦ Miranda ♦ name capture ♦ Plasma Parameter, polymorphic lambda-calculus, principal type, proper value, pure lambda-calculus ♦ rarefied gas dynamics ♦ space-cadet keyboard ♦ teraflop club, Thomas distribution ♦ Weak Head Normal Form. (references)

Etymologies containing "lambda": lambdacism. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Lambda" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (caret).

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Modern Usage: Lambda

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Lambda 1 (1966)
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Commercial Usage: Lambda

Domain	Title
References	Lambda Physik AG: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Introduction to Lambda Trees (reference) Project Lambda (reference) Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications: Second International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications, Tlca '95, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Lambda (reference) Lambda Book Report (reference) Lambda Report On Homosexulity (reference) Lambda Update (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Usage Frequency: Lambda

"Lambda" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.41% of the time. "Lambda" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	75.41%	46	50,285
Noun (singular)	24.59%	15	90,616
Total	100.00%	61	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Lambda

Country	Name
Germany	Lambda Physik AG
	(more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Lambda

Expressions using "lambda": bacteriophage lambda ♦ fully lazy lambda lifting ♦ knights of the Lambda Calculus ♦ lambda abstraction ♦ lambda expression ♦ lambda hyperon ♦ lambda lifting ♦ Lambda moth ♦ lambda particle ♦ lambda phage ♦ Trimorphodon lambda. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "lambda": lambda-calculus, lambda-Chain, lambda-criterion, lambda-matrices, lambda-matrix, Lambda-mu, lambda-phage, Lambda-Prolog.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lambda

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
lambda	281
lambda chi alpha	84
lambda power supply	76
lambda legal	66
lambda theta alpha	32
lambda phi epsilon	27
electronics lambda	24
alpha sigma lambda	23
lambda theta phi	22
lambda rising	19
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Modern Translations: Lambda

Language		Translations for "lambda"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		lambda-kriterie (lambda-criterion, Wilks'criterion), Lambda-kæde (Lambda chain). (various references)

Dutch		labda. (various references)

Finnish		lambda-kriteeri (lambda-criterion, Wilks'criterion), lambdaketju (Lambda chain). (various references)

French		critère de lambda (lambda-criterion), chaîne lambda (Lambda chain), bactériophage lambda (bacteriophage lambda), 1 Newton-mètre (m lambda N). (various references)

German		lambda-Kriterium (lambda-criterion, Wilks'criterion), Lambda-Kette (Lambda chain), m lambda N (m lambda N), Bakteriophagen Lambda (bacteriophage lambda), 1 newtonmeter (m lambda N). (various references)

Greek		m λ N (m lambda N), κριτήριο του Wilks (lambda-criterion, Wilks'criterion), μέτρο newton (m lambda N), λ αλυσίδα (Lambda chain). (various references)

Italian		m lambda N (m lambda N), criterio lambda (lambda-criterion, Wilks'criterion), catena lambda (Lambda chain), batteriofago lambda (bacteriophage lambda), 1 metro newton (m lambda N). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ラマルク説 (Lamarckism, lamb, Lambda rocket, lamb's wool, lambskin, laminate, RAM, rum, rump, soda pop). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ラ� ダ . (various references)

Korean		람bd아 미� �분학 (lambda-calculus). (various references)

Pig Latin		ambdalay.(various references)

Portuguese		critério lambda (lambda-criterion, Wilks'criterion), cadeia lambda (Lambda chain), 1 metro newton (m lambda N). (various references)

Spanish		mAN (m lambda N), criterio-lambda (lambda-criterion, Wilks'criterion), cadena lambda (Lambda chain), 1 metro newton (m lambda N). (various references)

Swedish		lambdakriterium (lambda-criterion, Wilks'criterion), lambdakedja (Lambda chain). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Lambda

Derivations
	Words beginning with "lambda": lambdas. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Lambda" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lamba, lambada, lamda, lemba, Lomba. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Lambda"

Words rhyming with "lambda" (pronounced 'Lamb"da'): Anaconda, Armada, Chorda, Cicada, Coda, Delenda, Edda, hacienda, Haggada, jacaranda, Kuda, Marimonda, Mida, Morinda, Nonda, Olla-podrida, Pagoda, panda, Pinnigrada, Plantigrada, Podrida, Propaganda, Pudenda, Racoonda, Reseda, Rig-Veda, rotunda, Sadda, Salsoda, Sida, Stomatoda, Tardigrada, Tienda, Urochorda, Veda, Venada, Veranda, Vifda, Yajur-Veda, Zerda. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Lambda

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-l-m"
	-2 letters: alba, alma, baal, bald, balm, blam, lama, lamb.
	-3 letters: aal, aba, ala, alb, ama, baa, bad, bal, bam, dab, dal, dam, lab, lad, lam, mad.
	-4 letters: aa, ab, ad, al, am, ba, la, ma.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-l-m"
	+1 letter: lambdas.
	+2 letters: adumbral, balsamed, damnable, damnably, labdanum.
	+3 letters: abdominal, admirable, admirably, ambulated, amendable, labdanums, lambasted.
	+4 letters: demandable, hebdomadal, imbalanced, mandibular.
	+5 letters: abdominally, bipyramidal, blackmailed, candelabrum, commandable, lamebrained, liquidambar, mandibulate, misbalanced.
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