Delta commonly refers to:
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Delta (letter) (Δ or δ), a letter of the Greek alphabet
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River delta, at a river mouth
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D (
NATO phonetic alphabet: "Delta")
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Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines, Inc., typically referred to as Delta, is one of the major airlines of the United States and a legacy carrier. One of the world's oldest airlines in operation, Delta is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The airline, along wi ...
, US
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Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19
Delta may also refer to:
Places
Canada
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Delta, British Columbia
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Delta (electoral district)
Delta is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1997 and since 2015.
History
The 1988–1997 edition of this riding was created in 1987 from parts of ...
, a federal electoral district
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Delta (provincial electoral district)
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Delta, Ontario
United States
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Mississippi Delta
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Delta, Alabama
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Delta Junction, Alaska
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Delta, Colorado
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Delta, Illinois
Delta is an unincorporated community in Carrier Mills Township, Saline County, Illinois, United States. Delta is located along the Canadian National Railway
The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationa ...
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Delta, Iowa
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Delta, Kentucky
Delta is an unincorporated community in Wayne County, Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illino ...
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Delta, Louisiana
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Delta, Missouri
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Delta, North Carolina
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Delta, Ohio
Delta is a village in Fulton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,103 at the 2010 census.
History
The first settlement at Delta was made in the 1830s. A post office called Delta has been in operation since 1837. The village was in ...
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Delta, Pennsylvania
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Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta
The Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, or California Delta, is an expansive inland river delta and estuary in Northern California. The Delta is formed at the western edge of the Central Valley by the confluence of the Sacramento and San ...
, California
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Delta, Utah
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Delta, Wisconsin, a town
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Delta (community), Wisconsin
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Delta County (disambiguation)
Elsewhere
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Delta Island, Antarctica
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Delta Stream, Antarctica
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Delta, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Nile Delta, Egypt
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Delta, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Delta State, Nigeria
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Delta, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia
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Colonia Delta, Uruguay
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
* Delta Megazord, a zord in ''
Power Rangers in Space''
* Deltas, a working class in Aldous Huxley's ''
Brave New World''
Film and television
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''Delta'' (2008 film), Hungary
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''Delta'' (American TV series), 1992
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Delta (Australian TV series), 1969
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Macross Delta'' or Macross Δ, in the ''Macross'' anime series
Music
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alt-J (∆), British indie band
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Delta blues, a music style
* "Delta", a song by Crosby, Stills & Nash from ''
Daylight Again'', 1982
Albums
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''Delta'' (video album), 2003, Delta Goodrem
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''Delta'' (Delta Goodrem album), 2007
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''Delta'' (Visions of Atlantis album), 2011
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''Delta'' (Mumford & Sons album), 2018
* ''Delta'', by
Shapeshifter, 2013
Other media
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''Delta'' (magazine), a poetry magazine
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''Delta'' (science magazine)
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''Delta'' (video game), 1987
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Delta FM or Delta Radio, a former UK radio station
Businesses and organizations
Companies
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Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines, Inc., typically referred to as Delta, is one of the major airlines of the United States and a legacy carrier. One of the world's oldest airlines in operation, Delta is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The airline, along wi ...
, US
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Delta Connection, a Delta Air Lines brand
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Delta Bank, Ukraine
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Delta Cafés, a Portuguese coffee company
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Delta Electric Company
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Delta Electricity, Australia
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Delta Electronics, Taiwan
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Delta Faucet Company
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Delta Holding, a Serbian corporation
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Delta Hotels
Delta Hotels by Marriott is a four-star brand of hotels and resorts located primarily in North America.
Canadian institution Beginnings
In June 1962, William Pattison and his business partners opened the 68-room Delport Inn in Richmond, BC. That ...
, Canada
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Delta Machinery, a tool company
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Delta Motor Corporation, South Africa
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Delta Motors Corporation, Philippines
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DELTA (Dutch cable operator)
Schools
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Delta State (disambiguation), several universities
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Delta College (disambiguation)
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Delta Academy (disambiguation)
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Delta Secondary School (disambiguation)
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Delta High School (disambiguation) Delta High School may refer to:
* Delta High School (Alaska)
* KIPP: Delta Collegiate High School, a school in Helena-West Helena, Arkansas
* Delta High School (Clarksburg, California)
* Delta Charter High School, a school in Tracy, California
* De ...
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Delta School District (disambiguation)
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Delta Career Education Corporation
Delta Career Education Corporation was a Virginia-based for-profit institution of higher learning that declared bankruptcy in 2018. Twenty one of its campuses were sold to Ancora Education. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Gryphon Investors, ...
, US
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Delta International University of New Orleans Delta International University of New Orleans or DIU is a post-secondary business school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, offering online programs in business administration.
Programs
Program offered is the MBA (Master in Business Administration).
Li ...
, Louisiana, US
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Delta Schools, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Law enforcement
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Delta (Norwegian police unit)
''Beredskapstroppen'' ( en, Emergency Unit), callsign "Delta", is the police tactical unit of the Norwegian Police Service. Its members are trained to perform dangerous operations such as high-risk arrests and hostage crisis, hostage situations. ...
Military
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Delta Force, U.S. Army special operations
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Space Force Delta, US Space Force logo
* Delta, a command echelon in the
structure of the United States Space Force
Other organizations
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STC Delta, a Georgian R&D center
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American Delta Party, an American political party
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San Francisco Deltas
The San Francisco Deltas were an American professional soccer team based in San Francisco, California, United States. Founded in 2016, the team made its debut in the North American Soccer League in 2017. The franchise played its home games at ...
, a soccer team
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Delta Omicron, a music fraternity
Finance
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Delta (finance), rate of change of a value
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Visa Delta
Visa Debit is a major brand of debit card issued by Visa in many countries around the world. Numerous banks and financial institutions issue Visa Debit cards to their customers for access to their bank accounts. In many countries the Visa Debit ...
or Visa Debit, a debit card
People
* Δ, signature of
David Macbeth Moir (1798–1851), Scottish physician and writer
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Delta Burke
Delta Ramona Leah Burke (born July 30, 1956) is an American actress, producer, and author. From 1986 to 1991, she starred as Suzanne Sugarbaker in the CBS sitcom '' Designing Women'', for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awards for Outst ...
(born 1956), American actress
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Delta Goodrem (born 1984), Australian singer
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Delta Work, drag queen
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Penelope Delta
Penelope Delta (; 1874, Alexandria, Khedivate of Egypt – 2 May 1941, Athens, Greece) was a Greek author. She is widely celebrated for her contributions to the field of children's literature. Her historical novels have been widely read and hav ...
(1874–1941), Greek author
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Delta (wrestler) (born 1985), Mexican
Science, technology, and mathematics
* The upper- and lower-case Greek letter
delta (Δ, δ) are used in many fields to denote a difference in some parameter
Chemistry
* Δ (delta), right-handed isomer in a
coordination complex
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Delta convention, for designating allenes
* Δ is used to specify certain
fatty acids
Computing
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Delta (computer), a Russian ZX Spectrum clone
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Delta encoding or delta compression, in computer communications
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Delta timing, in relation to hardware and network responsiveness
* DELTA, an
OpenVMS debugger
Earth sciences
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Epicentral distance (Δ)
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Subtropical Storm Delta (1972), Atlantic
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Tropical Storm Delta (2005)
Tropical Storm Delta was a late-forming tropical storm during the hyperactive 2005 Atlantic hurricane season which struck the Canary Islands as a strong extratropical storm where it caused significant damage. It then crossed over Morocco before ...
, Atlantic
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Hurricane Delta (2020)
Hurricane Delta was the record-tying fourth named storm of 2020 to make landfall in Louisiana, as well as the record-breaking tenth named storm to strike the United States in that year. The twenty-sixth tropical cyclone, twenty-fifth na ...
, Atlantic
Mathematics
* Δ, a difference of state between two before and after state schemas in the
Z notation
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, the first
Feigenbaum constant
* Delta connective, a unary connective in
t-norm fuzzy logics T-norm fuzzy logics are a family of non-classical logics, informally delimited by having a semantics that takes the real unit interval , 1for the system of truth values and functions called t-norms for permissible interpretations of conjunctio ...
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Delta method for approximating the distribution of a function
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Difference operator (Δ)
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Dirac delta function ( function)
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Kronecker delta (
)
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Laplace operator (Δ)
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Modular discriminant (Δ)
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Symmetric difference (Δ)
* Non-inferiority margin (δ)
* Δ, a class of sets in the
analytical hierarchy, for every natural number ''m'', ''n''
Medicine and biology
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Delta (ligand), an activator of the notch signaling pathway
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DELTA (taxonomy), a data format for descriptions of living things
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''Delta'' (wasp), Old World genus of potter wasps
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''Delta'' (moth) genus, also ''Campydelta''
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Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19
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Delta wave
Delta waves are high amplitude neural oscillations with a frequency between 0.5 and 4 hertz. Delta waves, like other brain waves, can be recorded with electroencephalography (EEG) and are usually associated with the deep stage 3 of NREM slee ...
, a brain wave
Vehicles
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Delta (rocket family)
* Delta, a
tricycle layout
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Daihatsu Delta, trucks
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Delta formation, V-shaped aircraft formation
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Delta wing, a triangular aircraft wing
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''Delta''-class submarine (NATO reporting name), Soviet/Russian SSBN
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GM Delta platform, a car platform
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Lancia Delta, an Italian rally car
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Oldsmobile Delta 88, a GM 1965–1983
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TrikeBuggy Delta
The TrikeBuggy Delta, Bullet and Transformer are a family of American ultralight trikes and powered parachutes, designed and produced by TrikeBuggy of Santa Barbara, California. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.Bayerl, Robby; M ...
, an American ultralight trike
Other uses in science and technology
* Refractory delta, in the roof of an
electric arc furnace
An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a furnace that heats material by means of an electric arc.
Industrial arc furnaces range in size from small units of approximately one-tonne capacity (used in foundries for producing cast iron products) up to ...
* Delta, a quadra group used in
socionics
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Delta baryon, a subatomic particle
* Delta circuit, in
three-phase electric power
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Delta robot, a delta-shaped parallel robot
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Ilford Delta, a photographic film
Sport
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Delta (horse)
Delta (1946–1960) was a champion Australian thoroughbred racehorse who raced from a two-year-old to a six year-old from distances of 6 furlongs to 2 miles. Champion jockey Neville Sellwood won 22 races including the 1949 VRC Derby, 1949 ...
(1946–1960), Australia
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Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils and Devilettes, sports teams, Itta Bena, Mississippi, US
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San Francisco Deltas
The San Francisco Deltas were an American professional soccer team based in San Francisco, California, United States. Founded in 2016, the team made its debut in the North American Soccer League in 2017. The franchise played its home games at ...
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Delta (orienteering club), a former Finnish club
Other uses
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Delta Dental, an American system
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Delta Works, a flood-protection works in the Netherlands
* Delta, a font designed by
Aldo Novarese
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Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
DELTA is an English language teaching (ELT) qualification for experienced Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) and Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). It is provided by Cambridge English Language Assessment thro ...
See also
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The Delta (disambiguation) The Delta may refer to:
* The Niger Delta, an oil-rich region of Nigeria
* The Arkansas Delta, one of the six natural regions of the state of Arkansas
* The Mississippi Delta, the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi that l ...
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Delta model, a strategic management model
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Nabla symbol (
), an inverted delta representing del, a vector differential operator
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Kronecker delta (
), a function
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Dirac delta (
), a function
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, represents a
triangle
A triangle is a polygon with three edges and three vertices. It is one of the basic shapes in geometry. A triangle with vertices ''A'', ''B'', and ''C'' is denoted \triangle ABC.
In Euclidean geometry, any three points, when non- colli ...
defined by points A, B and C
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(ε, δ)-definition of limit
Although the function (sin ''x'')/''x'' is not defined at zero, as ''x'' becomes closer and closer to zero, (sin ''x'')/''x'' becomes arbitrarily close to 1. In other words, the limit of (sin ''x'')/''x'', as ''x'' approaches z ...
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(%CH), a percentage change operation found on some calculators
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, a classification in the
arithmetical hierarchy
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, a classification in the
analytical hierarchy
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, a classification in the
polynomial hierarchy
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''δ''13C, a measure of the ratio of stable isotopes 13C:12C
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''δ''15N, a measure of the ratio of stable isotopes 15N:14N
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''δ''18O, a measure of the ratio of stable isotopes oxygen-18:oxygen-16
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DeltaWing, a prototype of racing car
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High-leg delta, a three phase electrical circuit
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Delta Delta Delta, a sorority
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Delta function (disambiguation) A Dirac delta function or simply delta function is a generalized function on the real number line denoted by δ that is zero everywhere except at zero, with an integral of one over the entire real line.
Delta function may also refer to:
* Kronecke ...
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Task Force Delta (disambiguation)
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Delta Force (disambiguation)
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Delta class (disambiguation) ''Delta'' class may refer to:
* ''Delta''-class submarine (russian: link=no, Дельта) Soviet designations ''Project 667B "Murena", Project 667BD "Murena-M", Project 667BDR "Kalmar", Project 667BDRM "Delfin"''; NATO reporting names ''Delta I, ...
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Delta 1 (disambiguation) Delta 1 may refer to:
* Delta One, financial derivatives products that have no optionality and as such have a delta very close to one
* Delta One (business class), premier business class product for Delta Air Lines.
* Fairey Delta 1, a research a ...
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Delta 4 (disambiguation)
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