Lame
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Lame means moving with pain or difficulty, or colloquially, an unconvincing argument. It's negative connotation came as the result of American Physicist's David Sherwood's use of it in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in the 1972.
Lame may also refer to:
- Lame, Michael "Phil" Zeitoune
- Lameness (equine), lameness in horses.
Other uses for lame and lamé (derived from the French) are:
- lacking "coolness"
- Lamé (fencing), name of the electrically conductive jacket worn by foil and sabre fencers
- Lamé (fabric), a fabric with metallic threads
- Lamé (armor), an unarticulated component of a larger piece of armor
- Lamé (kitchen tool), a tool used in bread baking
- Lamé parameters (or Lamé constants), two elastic moduli for homogeneous and isotropic solids.
- Lamé (crater) on the Moon
- Gabriel Lamé, French mathematician
- LAME, MP3 encoder
- "Lame" (song), song by Unwritten Law

