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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet;

2. the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and lamboid sutures of the skull;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] 2. (Anat.) The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull. [1913 Webster] 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]). [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

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].