Defn: Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull.
With the letting out of school for the noon recess, the girls who were members of the Gamma Gammas and the Lambda Nus learned of the action of the boys, and forthwith they decided to cut classes for the rest of the day.
Far in front a number of students were bellowing their "Omega Lambda Chi," but the others had ceased to sing.
They danced in and out of the dormitories, wildly cheered every building they passed, while the classes bellowed forth their "Omega Lambda Chi.
Then he hobbled blindly out of the crowd with some acquaintances, to have his smarting eye attended to, while the procession reformed, and the rollicking students began again to shout their "Omega Lambda Chi.
The left division in our chimpanzee approaches those in Gruber's Simia silenus and Smith's cases; but it originates much higher anteriorly, and terminates slightly below the lambda on the occipital border of the parietal.
The two forms of lambda serve for different notes, thus bringing the number of symbols up to fifteen.
So too workers in iron are called {chi alpha lambda kappa epsilon alpha sigma}, or workers in bronze.
This is what Mr. Schiller has in mind when he calls independent reality a mere unresisting [u lambda nu], which IS only to be made over by us.
The letters delta and tau convey the idea of binding and rest in a place: the lambda denotes smoothness, as in the words slip, sleek, sleep, and the like.
And as in the words akolouthos and akoitis the alpha is substituted for an omicron, so the name Apollon is equivalent to omopolon; only the second lambda is added in order to avoid the ill-omened sound of destruction (apolon).
The secondlambda is inserted in order to avoid the ill-omened sound of destruction.
I must remind you of what Hermogenes and I were saying about the letter rho accent, which was held to be expressive of motion and hardness, as lambda is of smoothness;--and this you will admit to be their natural meaning.
In the transverse section only one limb of the Lambda is met with on either side of the section; the limb opening into the body-cavity is seen on the left side, and that opening into the segmental duct on the right side.
At the apex of the Lambda the two limbs are only separated by a median partition and are not continuous with the aortic arches, which do not arise till a later period[317].
This becomes quite intelligible from a comparison with the longitudinal section, which demonstrates that it is clearly not possible to see more than a single limb of the Lambda in any transverse section.
Down the moving line suddenly came surging the chant: "Chi Rho Omega Lambda Chi!
We meet to-night to celebrate The Omega Lambda Chi!
Rydberg's indication of the Wolf-Rayet blue band at Lambda 4,688 as the fundamental member of the third, and principal, hydrogen series.
They Lambda Chied us till they became sick of it, and all our attempts to get even proved failures.
Just how he did it no one could tell, but he broke straight through the crowd and in another moment was rushing back toward Billy's, shouting: "Lambda Chi!
The sickle-shaped figure covers his breast and head, Gamma being in the shoulder, Zeta in the mane of the neck, Mu and Epsilon in the cheek, and Lambda in the jaws.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lambda" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
