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The Greek letter "L," which is used as a symbol for "wavelength." A lambda is a particular frequency of light, and the term is widely used in optical networking. Sending "multiple lambdas" down a fiber is the same as sending "multiple frequencies" or "multiple colors." See WDM and wavelength.

Lambda

The symbol above the word "wavelength" in this diagram is the Greek Lambda.

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lambda

Greek letter adopted as symbol by gay liberation movement. [Am. Pop. Cult.: Misc.]

See : Homosexuality

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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].