lambda

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  1. noun The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet. See Table at alphabet.
  2. noun A lambda baryon.

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  • (Nasdaq: ZGEN) today announced a global collaboration for PEG-Interferon lambda, a novel type 3 interferon currently in Phase Ib development for the treatment of Hepatitis C, and its related development program. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • BMS and ZymoGenetics have entered a global collaboration for PEG-Interferon lambda, a novel type 3 interferon currently in Phase Ib development for the treatment of Hepatitis C, and its related development program. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • Co-development: US shared costs - ZymoGenetics will pay 20 percent of the cost of developing pegylated interferon lambda, and Bristol-Myers will pay for 80 percent of costs with a 60 BMS / 40 ZymoGenetics share of profits. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • Code inside square brackets ([make-float ...]) is called a quotation in Factor, you can think of it as a lambda or anonymous function. —  Tenerife Skunkworks
  • Cooperative binding of [lambda] repressors to sites separated by integral turns of the DNA helix —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. Greek, of Phoenician origin; see lmd in Semitic roots.

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  1. from Greek λάμβδα, from Hebrew lāmedh.
 

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