Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.
- noun An object shaped like a triangle.
- noun A usually triangular alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river.
- noun A similar deposit at the mouth of a tidal inlet, caused by tidal currents.
- noun Mathematics A finite increment in a variable.
- adjective Being in the fourth position relative to a designated carbon atom in an organic molecule at which an atom or a group may be substituted.
- adjective Referring to the fourth of a group of isomers, or molecules of similar origin or properties, determined arbitrarily by those who discover or classify them. Used in combination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name of the Greek letter
Δ ,δ , answering to the Latin and English D. SeeD . - noun A triangular island or alluvial tract included between the diverging branches of the mouth of a great river: as, the delta of the Nile, of the Ganges, of the Mississippi, etc.
- noun In anatomy, a triangular space or surface.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The fourth letter of the Greek alphabet (Δ δ), corresponding to
d . - noun A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (Δ), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a river.
- noun (Elec.) The closed figure produced by connecting three coils or circuits successively, end for end, esp. in a three-phase system; -- often used attributively
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The fourth letter of the modern
Greek alphabet Δ ,δ . - noun A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.
- noun The letter D in the
ICAO spelling alphabet , which assigns words to letters of the alphabet. - noun mathematics The symbol
Δ . - noun computing, informal A small but noticeable effect, compare with
epsilon . - noun computing The set of differences between two versions of a file.
- noun surveying The
angle subtended at thecenter of a circulararc .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an object shaped like an equilateral triangle
- noun a low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
- noun the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term "delta" originally was used to measure risk in options to buy or sell stocks
'Rogue' Trading Lasted 3 Years Paul Sonne 2011
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Joining, what they call a delta formation, the final formation, and that's when the jet crashed and that crash caused damages to eight structures.
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But even that wasn't enough: Nunes went on to insult the families and fishermen who depend on the "billion dollar salmon fishery" wiped out by the collapse of the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta ecosystem.
Peter H. Gleick: $#*! Your Congressman Says: Devin Nunes' Wild Rant on California Water Peter H. Gleick 2010
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But even that wasn't enough: Nunes went on to insult the families and fishermen who depend on the "billion dollar salmon fishery" wiped out by the collapse of the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta ecosystem.
Peter H. Gleick: $#*! Your Congressman Says: Devin Nunes' Wild Rant on California Water Peter H. Gleick 2010
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Yes | No | Report from KingFisher907 wrote 27 weeks 3 days ago howdy moishe! we have land down in delta, are you still in AK?
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But even that wasn't enough: Nunes went on to insult the families and fishermen who depend on the "billion dollar salmon fishery" wiped out by the collapse of the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta ecosystem.
Peter H. Gleick: $#*! Your Congressman Says: Devin Nunes' Wild Rant on California Water Peter H. Gleick 2010
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These trajectories can trade ~15% reduction in delta v for a 100 day travel time, and therefore
A Constellation Alternative you Might Never have Seen - NASA Watch 2009
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Yes | No | Report from KingFisher907 wrote 27 weeks 3 days ago howdy moishe! we have land down in delta, are you still in AK?
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In his program brief, he will call attention to the fact that around the world cities are situated on low-lying coastal zones and in delta regions where rivers enter the sea.
Mobile Art Park 2008
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The lower Mississippi delta is literally nothing less than landscape design by army hydrologists.
Archive 2006-04-01 2006
skipvia commented on the word delta
"Blues" makes me think of the Mississippi delta. See Free Association.
February 6, 2008
jookerie commented on the word delta
4th letter of the Greek alphabet. Derived from the Phoenician letter 'Dalet' (meaning 'door' or maybe 'fish'!) River deltas are called that because of the uppercase delta (Δ) which is shaped like a river delta.
June 23, 2008