Delta

Noun

 * 1) The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ.
 * 2) A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.
 * 3) The letter D in the ICAO spelling alphabet, which assigns words to letters of the alphabet.
 * 4)  δ In the IPA, the symbol that represents the voiced dental fricative, the hard th in the English word father; frequently represented by the Icelandic eth (ð).
 * 5)  The symbol Δ.
 * 6)  A small but noticeable effect, compare with epsilon.
 * This will slow the main code path down, but only by delta.
 * 1)  The set of differences between two versions of a file.
 * When you update the file, the system will only save the deltas.
 * 1)  The angle subtended at the center of a circular arc.

Derived terms

 * delta connection
 * delta iron
 * delta metal
 * delta particle
 * delta wing

Thesaurus
V, alkali flat, alluvial plain, basin, bill, bottomland, branch, breakwater, bushveld, campo, cape, champaign, champaign country, chersonese, coastal plain, coral reef, crotch, crutch, desert, down, downs, fan, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, foreland, fork, furcula, furculum, grass veld, grassland, groin, head, headland, heath, hook, inguen, lande, level, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, mull, naze, ness, offshoot, open country, pampa, pampas, peneplain, peninsula, plain, plains, plateau, playa, point, prairie, promontory, prong, ramification, reef, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, sandspit, savanna, sebkha, spit, spur, stem, steppe, table, tableland, tongue, tree veld, trident, tundra, upland, vega, veld, weald, wide-open spaces, wishbone, wold

Etymology
From δέλτα:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: delta
 * Czech: delta
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: дельта
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: delta


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: delta
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 三角洲
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: 三角州
 * Russian: дельта
 * Vietnamese: đồng bằng


 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:


 * Italian:


 * Finnish:
 * Greek:


 * Russian: дельта


 * Finnish:


 * Russian: дельта


 * Dutch: delta
 * German: Delta
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: delta (1), ós (2), árós (2)
 * Interlingua: delta (1, 2, 3)


 * Portuguese: delta (1, 2, 3)
 * Sindhi:  (2),   (1,3,4)
 * Serbian: ušće
 * Slovene: delta (1, 2)
 * Swedish: delta
 * Vietnamese: châu thổ

Anagrams

 * atled
 * dalet
 * dealt

Noun

 * 1) Delta; the Greek letter Δ (lowercase δ).
 * 2)  A delta.

Noun

 * 1) data Greek letter

Noun

 * 1) delta (Greek letter)

Derived terms

 * deltafunktio
 * deltalihas
 * deltasiipi

Noun

 * 1) delta Greek letter

Noun

 * 1) delta geographical feature

Noun

 * 1) delta (all senses)

Derived terms

 * ala a delta
 * deltaplano

Noun

 * 1) delta, the Greek letter Δ, δ

Noun

 * 1) Greek letter delta.

Noun

 * 1) A river delta.

Etymology 1
From δέλτα:.

Letter
delta


 * 1) Delta; the Greek letter Δ,δ

Noun

 * 1) river delta

Etymology 2
From del: + ta:; i.e. to take (a) part in something

Verb
delta (archaic: deltaga)


 * 1) participate

Related terms

 * deltagare