Delta
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Delta commonly refers to:
- Delta (letter) (Δ or δ), a letter of the Greek alphabet
- River delta, a landform at the mouth of a river
- Delta Air Lines, a United States airline
Delta may also refer to:
Places
- Delta Island, Antarctica
- Delta, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Delta, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Delta State, Nigeria
Canada
- Delta, British Columbia
- Delta (provincial electoral district)
- Delta (electoral district), federal electoral district
- Delta, Ontario
United States
- Delta, Alabama
- Delta, Colorado
- Delta, Illinois
- Delta, Iowa
- Delta, Kentucky
- Delta, Louisiana
- Delta, Missouri
- Delta, North Carolina
- Delta, Ohio
- Delta, Pennsylvania
- Delta, Utah
- Delta, Wisconsin, a town
- Delta (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Delta County (disambiguation)
- Mississippi Delta, region in Mississippi
Uruguay
- Colonia Delta, San José Department
- Delta del Tigre y Villas, San José Department
Organizations
- STC DELTA, a Georgian research and development center
- Delta Connection, a regional airline brand name for Delta Air Lines
- Delta Express, a former no-frills brand owned and operated by Delta Air Lines from 1996 to 2003
- Delta Shuttle, the brand name for Delta Air Lines' hourly air shuttle services
- Delta (pen manufacturer), a manufacturer of fine writing instruments
- Delta Bank, a Ukrainian bank
- Delta Cafés, a Portuguese coffee roasting and coffee packaging company
- Delta Dental, an American dental plan system
- Delta Electric Company, defunct electrical parts company
- Delta Electricity, an Australian power generation company
- Delta Electronics, a power supplies and brushless fans manufacturer
- Delta Faucet Company, a plumbing fixtures company
- Delta Galil Industries, an Israeli textile company
- Delta Holding, a Serbian import-export, banking, insurance and retail corporation
- Delta Hotels, a Canadian hotel chain
- Delta Machinery, a stationary power tools and equipment company
- Delta Motor Corporation, a South African car manufacturer owned by General Motors
- Delta Motors Corporation, a defunct Filipino auto manufacturer
Military
- Delta Force, a U.S. Army special operations force
- Emergency Response Unit (Norway), a Norwegian special police forces team
Science and technology
- Delta model, strategic management model
- Ilford Delta, a photographic film
- Delta, the refractory section in the roof of an electric arc furnace
- Delta, a font designed by Aldo Novarese
- Delta robot, a specialized type of parallel robot
- Delta baryon, a subatomic particle with spin 3/2
- Delta circuit, in three-phase electric power
Chemistry
- Δ (delta), and Λ (lambda) isomers; See Coordination complex
- Double bond isomers, for example in fatty acids, tetrahydrocannabinol and cloprostenol
Computing
- Delta (computer), a Russian ZX Spectrum clone
- Delta encoding, a technique in computer communications and version control
- Delta timing, a technique used in iterative processes to keep track of time and prevent lag
Earth sciences
- Delta switching, the process by which some rivers change their course near their deltas
- Tropical Storm Delta (2005), a tropical storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
- Subtropical Storm Delta (1972), a subtropical storm of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season
- Epicentral distance (Δ)
Mathematics
- Delta (finance), a first order derivative of an option pricing formula versus the underlying spot price
- Delta method, a method for approximating the distribution of a function of a random variable
- Difference operator (Δ)
- Modular discriminant (Δ)
- Symmetric difference (Δ)
- Laplace operator (Δ)
- Dirac delta function (δ function)
- Δ, a change of state between two before and after state schemas in the Z notation
- Delta connective, a unary connective in t-norm fuzzy logics
- , the first Feigenbaum constant
Medicine and biology
- Delta (wasp), Old World genus of potter wasps
- Delta (ligand), an activator of the Notch signaling pathway
- DELTA (taxonomy), a data format used in taxonomy for recording descriptions of living things
- Delta wave, the frequency band of brain activity between 1 and 4 hertz
- Delta wave, on an ECG, the slurred upstroke of the QRS complex which is characteristic of Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome
Vehicles
- Delta (rocket family), a family of launch vehicles
- Delta-class submarine (NATO reporting name), a Soviet/Russian SSBN submarine series
- Delta Formation, an aircraft formation flying manoeuvre in the shape of a V
- Delta wing, an aircraft wing planform in the form of a triangle
- GM Delta platform, a compact car automobile platform from General Motors
- Lancia Delta, an Italian rally car
- Oldsmobile Delta 88, a full-size General Motors car made from 1965 to 1983
- TrikeBuggy Delta, an American ultralight trike design
- Delta, a tricycle layout
Film and television
- Delta (2008 film), 2008 Hungarian film
- Delta (TV series), a 1992 TV series starring Delta Burke
Music
- Alt-J (∆), British indie band
- Delta blues, one of the earliest styles of blues music
- "Delta", a song by Crosby, Stills & Nash from Daylight Again David Crosby 1982
Albums
- Delta (video album), a 2003 DVD by Delta Goodrem
- Delta (Delta Goodrem album), 2007
- Delta (Visions of Atlantis album), 2011
- Delta, a 2013 album by Shapeshifter
People
- Delta (wrestler) (born 1985), Mexican professional wrestler
- Penelope Delta (1874–1941), Greek author
- Delta Burke (born 1956), American actress
- Delta Goodrem (born 1984), Australian singer
Fictional characters
- Delta, a codename used by Jason Bourne in The Bourne Identity
- Delta AI, a supporting character in Red vs. Blue
- Delta Megazord, a zord in Power Rangers in Space
- Deltas, the working class of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Other uses
- Visa Delta or Visa Debit, a brand of debit card
- Delta Works, a flood-protection works in the Netherlands
- Delta FM or Delta Radio, a former UK radio station
- Delta (video game), a 1987 computer game
- Delta (magazine), a small poetry magazine
- Delta (horse) (1946–1960), champion Australian thoroughbred racehorse
- D (NATO phonetic alphabet)
- Delta (Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), a professional qualification in English language teaching
- Delta, a quadra group used in socionics
See also
- Nabla symbol (), an inverted delta representing del, a vector differential operator
- Kronecker delta (), a function
- , represents a triangle defined by points A, B and C
- (ε, δ)-definition of limit
- (%CH), a percentage change operation found on some calculators
- , a classification in the arithmetical hierarchy
- , a classification in the analytical hierarchy
- , a classification in the polynomial hierarchy
- δ13C, a measure of the ratio of stable isotopes 13C:12C
- δ15N, a measure of the ratio of stable isotopes 15N:14N
- δ18O, a measure of the ratio of stable isotopes oxygen-18:oxygen-16
- DeltaWing, a prototype of racing car
- High-leg delta, a three phase electrical circuit
- Delta Delta Delta, a sorority
- Delta function (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Delta
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