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Delta (letter) Delta (; uppercase Δ, lowercase δ or 𝛿; el, δέλτα, ''délta'', ) is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 4. It was derived from the Phoenician letter dalet 𐤃. Letters that come ...
(Δ or δ), a letter of the Greek alphabet * River delta, at a river mouth * D ( NATO phonetic alphabet: "Delta") * Delta Air Lines, US * Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 Delta may also refer to:


Places


Canada

* Delta, British Columbia **
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 Fr ...
, a federal electoral district **
Delta (provincial electoral district) Delta was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia based on the municipality of Delta at the mouth of the Fraser River between the city of Vancouver and the US border. It made its first appearance o ...
* Delta, Ontario


United States

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Mississippi Delta The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo ...
* Delta, Alabama * Delta Junction, Alaska *
Delta, Colorado Delta is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Delta County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 9,035 at the 2020 United States Census. The United States Forest Service headquarter ...
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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 Delta is a city in Keokuk County, Iowa, Keokuk County, Iowa, United States. The population was 264 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Geography Delta is located at (41.324112, -92.329481). According to the United States Census Bureau ...
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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 Delta is a village in Madison Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 239 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Tallulah Micropolitan Statistical Area. As the birthplace of African-American entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker, the fir ...
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Delta, Missouri Delta is a city in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States. The population was 376 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Cape Girardeau–Jackson, MO- IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Name A post office called Delta was established in ...
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Delta, North Carolina Delta is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Stokes County, North Carolina, Stokes County, North Carolina, United States. Unincorporated communities in Stokes County, North Carolina Unincorporated communities in North Caroli ...
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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 incor ...
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Delta, Pennsylvania Delta is a borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States, and one of the southernmost communities in Pennsylvania. The population was 706 at the 2020 census. It is served by the South Eastern School District which provides a public education ...
* Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, California *
Delta, Utah Delta is the largest city in Millard County, Utah, United States. It is located in the northeastern area of Millard County along the Sevier River and is surrounded by farmland. The population was 3,436 at the 2010 census. History Delta was ori ...
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Delta, Wisconsin Delta is a town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 273 at the 2010 census. The unincorporated communities of Delta and Pike River are located in the town. The unincorporated community of Sutherland is located partia ...
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Delta (community), Wisconsin Delta is a census-designated place in the town of Delta, Bayfield County, Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bord ...
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Delta County (disambiguation) Delta County is the name of several counties in the United States: * Delta County, Colorado *Delta County, Michigan *Delta County, Texas See also *Delta (disambiguation) Delta commonly refers to: * Delta (letter) (Δ or δ), a letter of the Gr ...


Elsewhere

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Delta Island Delta Island is an island long, lying close southeast of Lambda Island and east of Alpha Island in the Melchior Islands, Palmer Archipelago. The name, derived from the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet, was probably given by Discovery Investig ...
, Antarctica *
Delta Stream Delta Stream () is a small meltwater stream flowing from Howard Glacier into Lake Fryxell in Taylor Valley, Victoria Land. It was first studied on the ground by Troy L. Pewe during U.S. Navy Operation Deepfreeze, 1957–58, and so named by him bec ...
, Antarctica *
Delta, Minas Gerais Delta is a Brazilian municipality located in the west of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population was estimated to be 10,768 people living in a total area of . The city belongs to the mesoregion of Triângulo Mineiro and Alto Paranaíba and to t ...
, Brazil *
Nile Delta The Nile Delta ( ar, دلتا النيل, or simply , is the delta formed in Lower Egypt where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea. It is one of the world's largest river deltas—from Alexandria in the west to Po ...
, Egypt *
Delta, Thessaloniki Delta ( el, Δέλτα) is a municipality in the Thessaloniki regional unit, Central Macedonia, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Sindos. The municipality of Delta covers an area of 311.09 km2. Municipality The municipality ...
, Greece * Delta State, Nigeria *
Delta, Astrakhan Oblast Delta (russian: Дельта) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Buzansky Selsoviet, Krasnoyarsky District Krasnoyarsky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia: *Krasnoyarsky District, Astrakhan Oblast ...
, Russia * 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

* ''Delta'' (2008 film), Hungary * ''Delta'' (American TV series), 1992 * Delta (Australian TV series), 1969 * '' Macross Delta'' or Macross Δ, in the ''Macross'' anime series


Music

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alt-J Alt-J (stylised as alt-J, real name Δ) are an English indie rock band formed in 2007 in Leeds. Their lineup includes Joe Newman (guitar/lead vocals), Thom Sonny Green (drums), Gus Unger-Hamilton (keyboards/vocals), and formerly Gwilym Sainsbur ...
(∆), British indie band *
Delta blues Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues. It originated in the Mississippi Delta, and is regarded as a regional variant of country blues. Guitar and harmonica are its dominant instruments; slide guitar is a hallmark of the s ...
, a music style * "Delta", a song by Crosby, Stills & Nash from ''
Daylight Again ''Daylight Again'' is the seventh album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, and their third studio album in the trio configuration. It peaked at No. 8 on the ''Billboard 200'' albums chart, the final time the band has made the top ten to date. Three single ...
'', 1982


Albums

* ''Delta'' (video album), 2003, Delta Goodrem * ''Delta'' (Delta Goodrem album), 2007 * ''Delta'' (Visions of Atlantis album), 2011 * ''Delta'' (Mumford & Sons album), 2018 * ''Delta'', by Shapeshifter, 2013


Other media

* ''Delta'' (magazine), a poetry magazine * ''Delta'' (science magazine) * ''Delta'' (video game), 1987 *
Delta FM Delta FM was a United Kingdom local radio station, broadcasting to East Hampshire, South West Surrey and North West Sussex. The station provided local news, community information, and specialist music programming to the towns of Alton, Hampshire ...
or Delta Radio, a former UK radio station


Businesses and organizations


Companies

* Delta Air Lines, US ** Delta Connection, a Delta Air Lines brand *
Delta Bank Delta Bank ( uk, Дельта Банк) was one of the largest commercial banks in Ukraine. It was founded in February 2006 by Ukrainian businessman Mykola Lagun. It had its headquarters in Kyiv. Since 2006 the bank quickly increased due to consume ...
, Ukraine * Delta Cafés, a Portuguese coffee company * Delta Electric Company * Delta Electricity, Australia * Delta Electronics, Taiwan * Delta Faucet Company * Delta Holding, a Serbian corporation *
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. Tha ...
, Canada *
Delta Machinery Delta Power Equipment Corp. designs, manufactures and distributes power woodworking tools under the Delta Machinery brand. History Delta traces its roots to the Delta Specialty Company founded by Herbert Tautz in 1919 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Bas ...
, a tool company * Delta Motor Corporation, South Africa * Former
Delta Motors Corporation Delta Motor Corporation was an automobile company from the Philippines established by Ricardo C. Silverio, Sr. It operated under a technical tie-up with Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan,Doner, p. 43 but also produced its own range of small off-r ...
, Philippines * DELTA (Dutch cable operator)


Schools

* Delta State (disambiguation), several universities *
Delta College (disambiguation) Delta College may refer to: * Delta College (Michigan), near Bay City * Delta Technical College, Horn Lake, Mississippi * Louisiana Delta Community College, Monroe, Louisiana * Mississippi Delta Community College, Moorhead, Mississippi * San Joaq ...
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Delta Academy (disambiguation) Delta Academy may refer to: * Delta Academy (Mississippi) in Marks, Mississippi * Central Delta Academy in Inverness, Mississippi * Delta Streets Academy in Greenwood, Mississippi * Delta Academy in El Paso, Texas * Delta Academy in the Las Vega ...
* Delta Secondary School (disambiguation) *
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 ...
* Delta School District (disambiguation) *
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 *
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 * 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

* Delta Force, U.S. Army special operations * Space Force Delta, US Space Force logo * Delta, a command echelon in the structure of the United States Space Force


Other organizations

* STC Delta, a Georgian R&D center *
American Delta Party Rocky De La Fuente ran a third-party campaign for the presidency of the United States in the 2016 United States presidential election, 2016 election. De La Fuente had sought the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party's nomination duri ...
, an American political party *
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 Ke ...
, a soccer team * Delta Omicron, a music fraternity


Finance

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Delta (finance) In mathematical finance, the Greeks are the quantities representing the sensitivity of the price of derivatives such as options to a change in underlying parameters on which the value of an instrument or portfolio of financial instruments is depen ...
, rate of change of a value *
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 * Delta Burke (born 1956), American actress *
Delta Goodrem Delta Lea Goodrem AM (born November 9, 1984) is an Australian singer, songwriter, and actress. Goodrem signed to Sony Music at the age of 15. Her debut album, '' Innocent Eyes'' (2003), topped the ARIA Albums Chart for 29 non-consecutive week ...
(born 1984), Australian singer * Delta Work, drag queen *
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 * Delta (wrestler) (born 1985), Mexican


Science, technology, and mathematics

* The upper- and lower-case Greek letter
delta Delta commonly refers to: * Delta (letter) (Δ or δ), a letter of the Greek alphabet * River delta, at a river mouth * D (NATO phonetic alphabet: "Delta") * Delta Air Lines, US * Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 Delta may also re ...
(Δ, δ) are used in many fields to denote a difference in some parameter


Chemistry

* Δ (delta), right-handed isomer in a coordination complex * Delta convention, for designating allenes * Δ is used to specify certain fatty acids


Computing

* Delta (computer), a Russian ZX Spectrum clone * Delta encoding or delta compression, in computer communications *
Delta timing Delta time or delta timing is a concept used amongst programmers in relation to hardware and network responsiveness. In graphics programming, the term is usually used for variably updating scenery based on the elapsed time since the game last ...
, in relation to hardware and network responsiveness * DELTA, an
OpenVMS OpenVMS, often referred to as just VMS, is a multi-user, multiprocessing and virtual memory-based operating system. It is designed to support time-sharing, batch processing, transaction processing and workstation applications. Customers using Ope ...
debugger


Earth sciences

* Epicentral distance (Δ) *
Subtropical Storm Delta (1972) The 1972 Atlantic hurricane season was a significantly below average season, having only seven named storms, four fully tropical storms (the fewest since 1930) and three subtropical storms. It officially began on June 1, 1972, and lasted u ...
, Atlantic *
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 *
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 The Z notation is a formal specification language used for describing and modelling computing systems. It is targeted at the clear specification of computer programs and computer-based systems in general. History In 1974, Jean-Raymond Abrial ...
* \delta, 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 ...
*
Delta method In statistics, the delta method is a result concerning the approximate probability distribution for a function of an asymptotically normal statistical estimator from knowledge of the limiting variance of that estimator. History The delta method ...
for approximating the distribution of a function * Difference operator (Δ) *
Dirac delta function In mathematics, the Dirac delta distribution ( distribution), also known as the unit impulse, is a generalized function or distribution over the real numbers, whose value is zero everywhere except at zero, and whose integral over the entire ...
( function) * Kronecker delta (\delta_) * Laplace operator (Δ) * Modular discriminant (Δ) * 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

* Delta (ligand), an activator of the notch signaling pathway * DELTA (taxonomy), a data format for descriptions of living things * Delta (wasp), ''Delta'' (wasp), Old World genus of potter wasps * Delta (moth), ''Delta'' (moth) genus, also ''Campydelta'' * Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 * Delta wave, a brain wave


Vehicles

* Delta (rocket family) * Delta, a tricycle layout * Daihatsu Delta, trucks * Delta formation, V-shaped aircraft formation * Delta wing, a triangular aircraft wing * Delta-class submarine, ''Delta''-class submarine (NATO reporting name), Soviet/Russian SSBN * GM Delta platform, a car platform * Lancia Delta, an Italian rally car * Oldsmobile Delta 88, a GM 1965–1983 * TrikeBuggy Delta, an American ultralight trike


Other uses in science and technology

* Refractory delta, in the roof of an electric arc furnace * Delta, a quadra group used in socionics#Quadras, socionics * Delta baryon, a subatomic particle * Delta circuit, in Three-phase electric power#Delta (Δ), three-phase electric power * Delta robot, a delta-shaped parallel robot * Ilford Delta, a photographic film


Sport

* Delta (horse) (1946–1960), Australia * Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils and Devilettes, sports teams, Itta Bena, Mississippi, US *
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 Ke ...
, a soccer team * Delta (orienteering club), a former Finnish club


Other uses

* Delta Dental, an American system * Delta Works, a flood-protection works in the Netherlands * Delta, a font designed by Aldo Novarese * Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages


See also

* The Delta (disambiguation) * Delta model, a strategic management model * Nabla symbol (\nabla), an inverted delta representing del, a vector differential operator * Kronecker delta ( \delta_), a function * Dirac delta ( \delta(x)), a function * \Delta ABC, represents a triangle defined by points A, B and C * (ε, δ)-definition of limit * Δ%, \Delta \% (%CH), a percentage change operation found on some calculators * \Delta^0_n, a classification in the arithmetical hierarchy * \Delta^1_n, a classification in the analytical hierarchy * \Delta^P_i, a classification in the polynomial hierarchy * Δ13C, ''δ''13C, a measure of the ratio of stable isotopes 13C:12C * Δ15N, ''δ''15N, a measure of the ratio of stable isotopes 15N:14N * Δ18O, ''δ''18O, 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) * Task Force Delta (disambiguation) * Delta Force (disambiguation) * Delta class (disambiguation) * Delta 1 (disambiguation) * Delta 4 (disambiguation) * * * and δ * and δ {{disambiguation, geo, given name