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LAMB(law)
Lamb of God, the(dictionary)
Lamb(medicine)
in-lamb(dictionary)

Lamb shift (iou) and pailou (iou)


Lamb shift (iou)



Lamb shift noun phr. M20.
[Willis E. Lamb (b. 1913), US physicist.]
Physics. A displacement of energy levels in hydrogen and hydrogen-like atoms such that those differentiated only by different values of orbital angular momentum are not coincident, as predicted by Dirac's theory, but separated by a very small amount.

pailou (iou)



pailou noun. Pl. same, -s. M19.
[Chinese, from pai tablet + lou tower.]
A (usu. elaborate) Chinese commemorative or ornamental archway, freq. of temporary construction.