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Lamb, Charles (British author)
English essayist and critic, best known for his Essays of Elia (1823–33)....
Lamb, Elizabeth (British aristocrat)
Lamb’s mother, Elizabeth (née Milbanke), was a confidante of the poet Lord Byron and an aunt of Byron’s future wife Anne Isabella (“Annabella”) Milbanke. It was widely believed that the 1st Viscount Melbourne was not Lamb’s real father. In June 1805 Lamb married Lady Caroline Ponsonby, the eccentric daughter of Frederic Ponsonby, 3rd earl of Bessbor...
Lamb, Mary Ann (British author)
English writer, known for Tales from Shakespear, written with her brother Charles....
Lamb shift (physics)
...energies. Lamb and Retherford showed that the energy levels were in fact separated by about 1,058 megahertz; hence the theory was incomplete. This energy separation in hydrogen, known as the Lamb shift, contributed to the development of quantum electrodynamics....
Lamb, Sir Horace (English mathematician)
English mathematician who contributed to the field of mathematical physics....
Lamb, Sir Larry (British editor)
British newspaper editor (b. July 15, 1929, Fitzwilliam, Yorkshire, Eng.—d. May 18, 2000, London, Eng.), was credited with inventing modern British tabloid journalism when he transformed The Sun, a respectable broadsheet newspaper with a falling circulation, into Great Britain’s most popular daily with a circulation of more than four million. During his tenure (1969...
Lamb, Sydney M. (American linguist)
American linguist and originator of stratificational grammar, an outgrowth of glossematics theory. (Glossematics theory is based on glossemes, the smallest meaningful units of a language.)...
Lamb, Sydney MacDonald (American linguist)
American linguist and originator of stratificational grammar, an outgrowth of glossematics theory. (Glossematics theory is based on glossemes, the smallest meaningful units of a language.)...
Lamb, The (poem by Blake)
In one of the best-known lyrics, called The Lamb, a little boy gives to a lamb the same kind of catechism he himself had been given in church:...
lamb vulture (bird)
big eaglelike vulture of the Old World (family Accipitridae), frequently over 1 metre (40 inches) long, with a wingspread of nearly 3 metres (10 feet). Brown above and tawny below, the lammergeier has spots on the breast, black and white stripes on the head, and long bristles on the “chin.” Eaglelike features are the feathered face and legs, curved beak, strongly prehensile feet, and...
Lamb, William, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (prime minister of Great Britain)
British prime minister from July 16 to Nov. 14, 1834, and from April 18, 1835, to Aug. 30, 1841. He was also Queen Victoria’s close friend and chief political adviser during the early years of her reign (from June 20, 1837). Although a Whig and an advocate of political rights for Roman Catholics, he...
Lamb, Willis Eugene, Jr. (American physicist)
American physicist and corecipient, with Polykarp Kusch, of the 1955 Nobel Prize for Physics for experimental work that spurred refinements in the quantum theories of electromagnetic phenomena....
Lamba (people)
a Bantu-speaking people living in the Kéran River valley and Togo Mountains of northeastern Togo and adjacent areas of Benin. The Lamba, like the neighbouring and related Kabre, claim descent from autochthonous Lama; megaliths and ancient pottery attest to their long presence in the area....
Lambadi Gypsy (people)
The Lambadi women of Andhra Pradesh wear mirror-speckled headdresses and skirts and cover their arms with broad, white bone bracelets. They dance in slow, swaying movements, with men acting as singers and drummers. Their social dance is imbued with impassioned grace and lyricism....
Lambaesis (Algeria)
an Algerian village notable for its Roman ruins; it is located in the Batna département, 80 miles (128 km) south-southwest of Constantine by road....
Lambakanna dynasty (Sri Lankan dynasty)
The Vijaya dynasty of kings continued, with brief interruptions, until 65 ce, when Vasabha, a member of the Lambakanna royal family, founded the Lambakanna dynasty. The Lambakannas ruled for about four centuries. Their most noteworthy king was Mahasena (reigned 276–303), who constructed many major irrigation systems and championed heterodox Buddhist sects....
Lamballe, Marie-Thérèse-Louise de Savoie-Carignan, princesse de (Italian-French courtier)
the intimate companion of Queen Marie-Antoinette of France; she was murdered by a crowd during the French Revolution for her alleged participation in the queen’s counterrevolutionary intrigues....
Lambaréné (Gabon)
city, west-central Gabon, located on an island in the Ogooué River at a point where the river is over half a mile wide. It is a trading and lumbering centre with a steamboat landing, an airport, and road connections to Kango, Ndjolé, and Mouila. Lambaréné is best known for its hospital founded in 1913 by Albert Schweitzer, the theol...
Lambasa (Fiji)
...of Suva that experienced rapid growth in the late 20th and early 21st centuries; and Lautoka, in northwestern Viti Levu, the centre of the sugar industry and the location of a major port. Labasa (Lambasa), on Vanua Levu, is a centre for administration, services, and sugar production....
λらむだ bacteriophage (virus)
...recombination. In 1964 he ascertained that the T4 bacteriophage had a circular genetic map and that its DNA was circularly permuted. He then turned his attention to recombination in the more complex λらむだ bacteriophage, eventually locating a site (dubbed Chi) on its DNA sequence necessary to initiate recombination. The discovery, made in 1972, had implications for the use of bacteriophages i...
lambda calculus (logic)
In 1960 John McCarthy, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), combined elements of IPL with the lambda calculus (a formal mathematical-logical system) to produce the programming language LISP (List Processor), which remains the principal language for AI work in the United States. (The lambda calculus itself was invented in 1936 by the Princeton University......
lambda particle (subatomic particle)
...with an electric charge of −e and a strangeness of −3, just as is required for the omega-minus (Ω−) particle; and the neutral strange particle known as the lambda (Λらむだ) particle contains uds, which gives the correct total charge of 0 and a strangeness of −1. Using this system, the lambda can be viewed as a neutron wi...
Λらむだ particle (subatomic particle)
...with an electric charge of −e and a strangeness of −3, just as is required for the omega-minus (Ω−) particle; and the neutral strange particle known as the lambda (Λらむだ) particle contains uds, which gives the correct total charge of 0 and a strangeness of −1. Using this system, the lambda can be viewed as a neutron wi...
lambda phage (biology)
Several bacterial viruses have also been used as vectors. The most commonly used is the lambda phage. The central part of the lambda genome is not essential for the virus to replicate in Escherichia coli, so this can be excised using an appropriate restriction enzyme, and inserts from donor DNA can be spliced into the gap. In fact, when the phage repackages DNA into its protein capsule,......
lambda point (physics)
...455.76 °F) in 1938, simultaneously by Soviet physicist Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa and by Canadian physicists John F. Allen and A.D. Misener. (The transition to the superfluid phase is called the lambda-transition.) The light isotope 3He shows no traces of superfluidity or any other anomalous behaviour down to a temperature of 2.65 K (− 270.5 °C, or − 454.9 ...
lambda transition (physics)
...455.76 °F) in 1938, simultaneously by Soviet physicist Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa and by Canadian physicists John F. Allen and A.D. Misener. (The transition to the superfluid phase is called the lambda-transition.) The light isotope 3He shows no traces of superfluidity or any other anomalous behaviour down to a temperature of 2.65 K (− 270.5 °C, or − 454.9 ...
Lambdia (Algeria)
town, north-central Algeria. It is situated on a plateau 56 miles (90 km) south of Algiers. Shadowed by Mount Nador (3,693 feet [1,126 m]) to the northwest, the town is surrounded by fertile, well-watered soil that forms the watershed for the Chelif River and the Wadis Chiffa and Isser. Located on the site...
Lambeau, Curly (American football coach)
American gridiron football coach who had one of the longest and most distinguished careers in the history of the game. A founder of the Green Bay Packers in 1919, he served through 1949 as head coach of the only major team in American professional sports...
Lambeau, Earl Louis (American football coach)
American gridiron football coach who had one of the longest and most distinguished careers in the history of the game. A founder of the Green Bay Packers in 1919, he served through 1949 as head coach of the only major team in American professional sports...
Lambeau Field (stadium, Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States)
From 1933 to 1994 the Packers elected to play some of their home games each year in Milwaukee to benefit from the larger market. Beginning in 1995, all home games were played at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, notwithstanding that city’s small size (it did not exceed 100,000 residents until 2000) compared with virtually all other cities that have NFL franchises....
Lambeosaurus (dinosaur genus)
duck-billed dinosaur (hadrosaur) notable for the hatchet-shaped hollow bony crest on top of its skull. Fossils of this herbivore date to the Late Cretaceous Period (99.6 million to 65.5 million years old) of North America. Lambeosaurus was first discovered in 19...
Lambermont, August, Baron (Belgian statesman)
Belgian statesman who in 1863 helped free Belgium’s maritime commerce by negotiating a settlement of the Schelde Question—the dispute over Dutch control of the maritime commerce of Antwerp, Belgium’s main port....
Lambermont, Auguste, Baron (Belgian statesman)
Belgian statesman who in 1863 helped free Belgium’s maritime commerce by negotiating a settlement of the Schelde Question—the dispute over Dutch control of the maritime commerce of Antwerp, Belgium’s main port....
Lambermont, François-Auguste, baron de (Belgian statesman)
Belgian statesman who in 1863 helped free Belgium’s maritime commerce by negotiating a settlement of the Schelde Question—the dispute over Dutch control of the maritime commerce of Antwerp, Belgium’s main port....
lambert (unit of measurement)
unit of luminance (brightness) in the centimetre-gram-second system of physical measurement. (See the International System of Units.) It is defined as the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that radiates or reflects one lumen per square centimetre. The unit was named for the 18t...
Lambert conformal projection (topography)
conic projection for making maps and charts in which a cone is, in effect, placed over the Earth with its apex aligned with one of the geographic poles. The cone is so positioned that it cuts into the Earth at one parallel and comes out again at a parallel closer to the Equator; both parallels are chosen as standards, or bounds, of the area t...
Lambert, Constant (British composer)
English composer, conductor, and critic who played a leading part in establishing the ballet as an art form in England....
Lambert, Eleanor (American publicist)
American fashion publicist (b. Aug. 10, 1903, Crawfordsville, Ind.—d. Oct. 7, 2003, New York, N.Y.), helped elevate American fashion to international prominence and saw that American designers—most notably Halston, Oscar de la Renta, Anne Klein, and Bill Blas...
Lambert, François (French religious reformer)
Protestant convert from Roman Catholicism and leading reformer in Hesse....
Lambert, Gerard Barnes (American businessman)
American merchandiser and advertiser who marketed his father’s invention of Listerine mouthwash by making bad breath a social disgrace....
Lambert, Jack (American football player)
American merchandiser and advertiser who marketed his father’s invention of Listerine mouthwash by making bad breath a social disgrace.......
Lambert, Johann Heinrich (Swiss-German scientist and philosopher)
Swiss German mathematician, astronomer, physicist, and philosopher who provided the first rigorous proof that πぱい (the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter) is irrational, meaning that it cannot be expressed as the quotient of two integers....
Lambert, John (English general)
a leading Parliamentary general during the English Civil Wars and the principal architect of the Protectorate, the form of republican government existing in England from 1653 to 1659....
Lambert, John William (American engineer)
...a graceful gasoline-powered tricycle believed by historians to have been completed in 1887. Henry Nadig, another Pennsylvania inventor, completed a vehicle and tested it in 1891, the same year as John William Lambert of Ohio City, Ohio, and Charles Black of Indianapolis, Ind. William T. Harris of Baltimore and Gottfried Schloemer of Milwaukee, Wis., built successful cars in 1892. The Reese,......
Lambert, Louis (American bandleader)
leading American bandmaster and a virtuoso cornetist, noted for his flamboyant showmanship, innovations in instrumentation, and the excellence of his bands....
Lambert of Auxerre (medieval logician)
...more commonly known as Summulae logicales (“Little Summaries of Logic”) probably in the early 1230s; it was used as a textbook in some late medieval universities; (2) Lambert of Auxerre, who wrote a Logica sometime between 1253 and 1257; and (3) William of Sherwood, who produced Introductiones in logicam (Introduction to Logic) and other......
Lambert of Hersfeld (German historian)
chronicler who assembled a valuable source for the history of 11th-century Germany....
Lambert of Saint-Omer (French scholar)
The Liber floridus (c. 1120) of Lambert of Saint-Omer is an unoriginal miscellany, but it has an interest of its own in that it discards practical matters in favour of metaphysical discussion and pays special attention to such subjects as magic and astrology. The greatest achievement of the 12th century was the Imago mundi of Honorius Inclusus. Honorius produced......
Lambert of Spoleto (Holy Roman emperor)
duke of Spoleto, king of Italy, and Holy Roman emperor (892–898) during the turbulent late Carolingian Age. He was one of many claimants to the imperial title....
Lambert Pharmacal Company (American company)
former diversified American corporation that manufactured products ranging from pharmaceuticals to candy. It became part of U.S. pharmaceutical conglomerate Pfizer Inc. in 2000....
Lambert, Piggy (American basketball coach)
U.S. collegiate basketball coach who pioneered the fast break, an offensive drive down the court at all-out speed....
Lambert, Saint (bishop of Maastricht)
...accent in Liège was officially approved over the acute in 1946.) The site was inhabited in prehistoric times and was known to the Romans as Leodium. A chapel was built there to honour St. Lambert, bishop of Maastricht, who was murdered there in 705. Liège became a town when St. Hubert transferred his see there in 721....
Lambert, Ward L. (American basketball coach)
U.S. collegiate basketball coach who pioneered the fast break, an offensive drive down the court at all-out speed....
Lambert, William G. (American journalist)
American journalist who shared a 1957 Pulitzer Prize for revealing Teamsters Union corruption and who in 1969, in a Life magazine article, disclosed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas’s acceptance of a $20,000 fee from financier Louis ...
Lambert-Beer law (physics)
in spectroscopy, a relation concerning the absorption of radiant energy by an absorbing medium. Formulated by German mathematician and chemist August Beer in 1852, it states that the absorptive capacity of a dissolved substance is directly proportional to its concentration in a solution. The relationship can be expressed a...
Lambert–St. Louis Municipal Airport (airport, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States)
...projects was a modern addition for the Neoclassic-style Federal Reserve Bank building there. He resigned in 1949 to become a partner with George Hellmuth and Joseph Leinweber. Yamasaki designed the Lambert–St. Louis Municipal Airport terminal in Missouri, which was notable for its impressive use of concrete vaults and which strongly influenced subsequent American air-terminal design. In....
Lambertini, Prospero (pope)
pope from 1740 to 1758. His intelligence and moderation won praise even among deprecators of the Roman Catholic Church at a time when it was beset by criticism from the philosophers of the Enlightenment and its prerogatives were being challenged by absolutist monarchs. Typical of his pontificate were his promotion of scienti...
Lambert’s filbert (tree)
...with two American shrubs, the American filbert (C. americana) and the beaked filbert (C. cornuta), popularly called hazelnuts. The large cobnut is a variety of the European filbert; Lambert’s filbert is a variety of the giant filbert. Nuts produced by the Turkish filbert (C. colurna) are sold commercially as Constantinople nuts. Barcelona nuts come from the Spanish, ...
Lambert’s law (optics)
...for identification and determination of concentrations of substances that absorb light. Two fundamental laws are applied: that of a French scientist, Pierre Bouguer, which is also known as Lambert’s law, relates the amount of light absorbed and the distance it travels through an absorbing medium; and Beer’s law relates light absorption and the concentration of the absorbing substa...
Lambertsen, Christian James (American scientist and inventor)
May 15, 1917Westfield, N.J.Feb. 11, 2011Newtown Square, Pa.American scientist and inventor who developed the first closed-circuit rebreathing system for underwater use—widely seen as the precursor of modern scuba (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus) gear—and trained...
Lambèse (Algeria)
an Algerian village notable for its Roman ruins; it is located in the Batna département, 80 miles (128 km) south-southwest of Constantine by road....
Lambessa (Algeria)
an Algerian village notable for its Roman ruins; it is located in the Batna département, 80 miles (128 km) south-southwest of Constantine by road....
Lambeth (borough, London, United Kingdom)
inner borough of London, part of the historic county of Surrey, extending southward from the River Thames. It includes the districts of (roughly north to south) Lambeth, Vauxhall, Kennington, South Lambeth, Stockwell, and Brixton and large parts of C...
Lambeth Conference (religion)
any of the periodic gatherings of bishops of the Anglican Communion held initially (1867–1968) at Lambeth Palace (the London house of the archbishop of Canterbury) and, since 1978, at Canterbury, Eng. They are important as a means of expressing united Anglican opinion, but the Anglican Communion h...
Lambeth delftware (pottery)
tin-glazed earthenware made at a number of factories at Southwark, London, and nearby Lambeth, Vauxhall, Bermondsey, and Aldgate during the 17th and 18th centuries. Typical 17th-century examples include wine bottles, drug pots, and ointment pots, usually decorated in blue on white. Sometimes the decoration consists of bold horizontal lines and freehand lettering, sometimes of arms, shells, masks,...
Lambeth House (building, London, United Kingdom)
, official London residence of the Anglican archbishop of Canterbury and until 1978 the site of the Lambeth Conference, an episcopal assembly that is called about once every 10 years (the conference now meets at Canterbury)....
Lambeth Palace (building, London, United Kingdom)
, official London residence of the Anglican archbishop of Canterbury and until 1978 the site of the Lambeth Conference, an episcopal assembly that is called about once every 10 years (the conference now meets at Canterbury)....
Lambeth Quadrilateral (religion)
four points that constitute the basis for union discussions of the Anglican Communion with other Christian groups: acceptance of Holy Scripture as the rule of faith; the Apostles’ and the Nicene creeds; the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper; and the historic episcopate. Declared by the General Convention of the Protestan...
Lambeth walk (dance)
...and toured extensively in variety, musical comedy, and pantomime. In 1937 he scored a tremendous success as Bill Snibson in the British musical Me and My Girl, in which he created the “Lambeth walk,” a ballroom dance supposedly representing the strut of the cockney residents of the Lambeth section of London....
lambic beer (alcoholic beverage)
Lambic and gueuze beers are produced mainly in Belgium. The wort is made from malted barley, unmalted wheat, and aged hops. The fermentation process is allowed to proceed from the microflora present in the raw materials (a “spontaneous” fermentation). Different bacteria (especially lactic acid bacteria) and yeasts ferment the wort, which is high in lactic acid content. Lambic beer......
Lambing Flat Riots (Australian history)
(1860–61), wave of anti-Chinese disturbances in the goldfields of New South Wales, Australia, which led to restriction of Chinese immigration. Many white and Chinese miners had flocked to the settlement of Lambing Flat (now called Young) when gold was discovered in the area in the summer of 1860. The first disturbanc...
Lambis (gastropod)
...(Strombus gigas), found from Florida to Brazil, has an attractive ornamental shell; the aperture, or opening into the first whorl in the shell, is pink and may be 30 cm (12 inches) long. Spider conchs, with prongs on the lip, belong to the genus Lambis....
lambkill (shrub)
(species Kalmia angustifolia), an open upright woody shrub of the heath family (Ericaceae). Lambkill is 0.3–1.2 m (1–4 feet) tall and has glossy, leathery, evergreen leaves and showy pink to rose flowers. It contains andromedotoxin...
Lamborghini (Italian company)
(species Kalmia angustifolia), an open upright woody shrub of the heath family (Ericaceae). Lambkill is 0.3–1.2 m (1–4 feet) tall and has glossy, leathery, evergreen leaves and showy pink to rose flowers. It contains andromedotoxin...
Lamborghini, Ferruccio (Italian industrialist)
Italian industrialist (b. April 28, 1916, Cento, Italy--d. Feb. 20, 1993, Perugia, Italy), founded a luxury car company that produced some of the fastest, most expensive, and sought-after sports cars in the world. Lamborghini worked as a mechanic in the Italian army during World War II...
lambrequin (heraldry)
From the helmet hangs the mantling, or lambrequin. When worn, this was made of linen or other cloth and performed the useful function of shielding the wearer from the sun’s rays; it also served to snare or deflect sword cuts. The mantling, or mantle, is painted with the principal colour of the arms, while its lining is of the principal metal. More elaborately styled mantles are used for kin...
Lambrick, Hugh Trevor (British archaeologist)
...Mohenjo-daro. Both are based on an estimation of the original area covered and the density of the people living there, using traditional settlements in the region in the present day for comparison. Hugh Trevor Lambrick proposed a figure of 35,000 for Mohenjo-daro and a roughly similar figure for Harappa, while Walter A. Fairservis estimated the former at about 41,250 and the latter about......
Lambros (work by Solomós)
...His Ímnos is tín elevtherían (“Hymn to Liberty”) was composed in 1823, and his poem on the death of Lord Byron he wrote in 1824–25. The unfinished Lambros, a romantic poem of the revolutionary times, was begun in 1826. To this period (1823–28) belong also some shorter lyrical pieces and some satires, of which the most notable is ...
lamb’s ear (plant)
Widely cultivated perennial herb (Stachys byzantina, or S. olympica) of the mint family, native to South Asia. Covered with densely matted hairs, its silver-green leaves, which provide a pleasing contrast to green leaves and to bright- or soft-coloured flowers, make lamb’s ears a hardy ...
lamb’s ears (plant)
Widely cultivated perennial herb (Stachys byzantina, or S. olympica) of the mint family, native to South Asia. Covered with densely matted hairs, its silver-green leaves, which provide a pleasing contrast to green leaves and to bright- or soft-coloured flowers, make lamb’s ears a hardy ...
lamb’s lettuce (plant)
(species Valerianella locusta), weedy plant of the family Valerianaceae, native to southern Europe but widespread in grainfields in Europe and North America. It has been used locally as a salad green and as an herb....
lamb’s quarters (Chenopodium album)
(species Chenopodium album), an annual weed of the amaranth family (Amaranthaceae), of wide distribution in Asia, Europe, and North America. It can grow up to 3 metres (abo...
Lambs, The (work by Anthony)
American biographer best known for The Lambs (1945), a controversial study of the British writers Charles and Mary Lamb. The greater portion of her work examined the lives of notable American women....
Lambsdorff, Otto (German politician)
Dec. 20, 1926Aachen, Ger.Dec. 5, 2009Bonn, Ger.German politician who made waves in German political life in the 1970s and ’80s as a colourful outspoken cabinet minister and conservative party leader. Lambsdorff served in the military during ...
Lambsdorff, Otto Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von der Wenge, Graf (German politician)
Dec. 20, 1926Aachen, Ger.Dec. 5, 2009Bonn, Ger.German politician who made waves in German political life in the 1970s and ’80s as a colourful outspoken cabinet minister and conservative party leader. Lambsdorff served in the military during ...
Lamé constant (mechanics)
...as the notation for the shear modulus, following convention, and where λらむだ = 2νにゅーμみゅー/(1 − 2νにゅー). The elastic constants λらむだ and μみゅー are sometimes called the Lamé constants. Since νにゅー is typically in the range 14 to 13 for hard polycrystalline solids, ...
lamed form (Aramaic calligraphy)
...ones. Then, too, there was a tendency to hold these strong horizontals on the top line, with trailing descenders finding a typical length, long or short on the basis of ancient habits. The lamed form, which has the same derivation as the Western L, resembles the latter and can be picked out in early Aramaic pen hands by its characteristic long ascender....
lamella (chloroplast membrane)
...final acceptor of electrons, replacing the nonphysiological electron acceptors used by Hill. His procedures were refined further so that individual small pieces of isolated chloroplast membranes, or lamellae, could perform the Hill reaction. These small pieces of lamellae were then fragmented into pieces so small that they performed only the light reactions of the photosynthetic process. It is....
lamella (anatomy)
...Acanthodactylus have fringes on the toes that provide increased surface area, preventing the lizard from sinking into loose desert sand. Arboreal geckos and anoles (Anolis) have lamellae (fine plates) on the undersides of the toes. Each lamella is made up of brushlike setae. The tips of each seta divide hundreds of times into tiny spatulae (spoon-shaped strands); the final......
lamella (mineralogy)
...together in aggregates. Examples of some descriptive terms for such aggregations, illustrated in Figure 8, are given here: granular, an intergrowth of mineral grains of approximately the same size; lamellar, flat, platelike individuals arranged in layers; bladed, elongated crystals flattened like a knife blade; fibrous, an aggregate of slender fibres, parallel or radiating; acicular, slender,.....
lamella dome (architecture)
Vaulted roof consisting of a crisscrossing pattern of parallel arches skewed with respect to the sides of the covered space, composed of relatively short members (lamellae) hinged together to form an interlocking network in a diamond pattern. It was used for the first two great covered sports stadiums built in the U.S. since the 1960s: the Houston Astrodome (1962–64), wit...
lamella roof (architecture)
Vaulted roof consisting of a crisscrossing pattern of parallel arches skewed with respect to the sides of the covered space, composed of relatively short members (lamellae) hinged together to form an interlocking network in a diamond pattern. It was used for the first two great covered sports stadiums built in the U.S. since the 1960s: the Houston Astrodome (1962–64), wit...
lamellae (chloroplast membrane)
...final acceptor of electrons, replacing the nonphysiological electron acceptors used by Hill. His procedures were refined further so that individual small pieces of isolated chloroplast membranes, or lamellae, could perform the Hill reaction. These small pieces of lamellae were then fragmented into pieces so small that they performed only the light reactions of the photosynthetic process. It is....
lamellae (anatomy)
...Acanthodactylus have fringes on the toes that provide increased surface area, preventing the lizard from sinking into loose desert sand. Arboreal geckos and anoles (Anolis) have lamellae (fine plates) on the undersides of the toes. Each lamella is made up of brushlike setae. The tips of each seta divide hundreds of times into tiny spatulae (spoon-shaped strands); the final......
lamellae (mineralogy)
...together in aggregates. Examples of some descriptive terms for such aggregations, illustrated in Figure 8, are given here: granular, an intergrowth of mineral grains of approximately the same size; lamellar, flat, platelike individuals arranged in layers; bladed, elongated crystals flattened like a knife blade; fibrous, an aggregate of slender fibres, parallel or radiating; acicular, slender,.....
lamellaphone (musical instrument)
any musical instrument consisting of a set of tuned metal or bamboo tongues (lamellae) of varying length attached at one end to a soundboard that often has a box or calabash resonator. Board-mounted lamellaphones are often played inside gourds or bowls for increased resonance, and the timbre may be modified by attaching rattling devices to the board or resonator or by attaching metal cuffs at the ...
lamellar phase (physics)
Liquid-crystal-forming compounds are widespread and quite diverse. Soap can form a type of smectic known as a lamellar phase, also called neat soap. In this case it is important to recognize that soap molecules have a dual chemical nature. One end of the molecule (the hydrocarbon tail) is attracted to oil, while the other end (the polar head) attaches itself to water. When soap is placed in......
Lamellibrachia barhami (beardworm)
The wormlike body varies in length from several centimetres to 0.5 metre (1.64 feet), the body diameter, from 0.06 millimetre to 4 millimetres (0.002 inch to 0.16 inch). Lamellibrachia barhami is one of the largest species. The body consists of three segments: two small anterior regions are called protosome and mesosome; the long trunk section is called the metasome. Each segment has its......
lamellibranch ctenidium (mollusk)
The modified gill is called a ctenidium, and its structure is best explained by the term lamellibranch. The lamellibranch structure may be further qualified as filibranch, pseudolamellibranch, or eulamellibranch. In filibranchs the filaments are only weakly united by cilia, and often the ctenidium retains some inherent sorting mechanism. Collection and sorting of potential food has not yet been......
Lamellibranchiata (class of mollusks)
any of more than 15,000 species of clams, oysters, mussels, scallops, and other members of the phylum Mollusca characterized by a shell that is divided from front to back into left and right valves. The valves are connected to one another at a hinge. Primitive bivalves ingest sediment; however, in most species the respirat...