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Delta commonly refers to:
- Delta (letter), Δ or δ in the Greek alphabet, also used as a mathematical symbol
- River delta, a landform at the mouth of a river
Delta may also refer to:
[edit] Places
[edit] Canada
[edit] Nigeria
[edit] United States
- Delta, Colorado
- Delta, California
- Delta, Iowa
- Delta, Louisiana
- Delta, Missouri
- Delta, Ohio
- Delta, Pennsylvania
- Delta, Utah
- Delta, Wisconsin
- Delta Charter Township, Michigan
- Delta County (disambiguation)
[edit] Science and technology
[edit] Earth sciences
[edit] Mathematics and computer science
[edit] Medicine and biology
[edit] Military
[edit] Companies and products
- Delta Air Lines, a major U.S.-based airline
- Delta (computer), a Russian ZX Spectrum clone
- Delta Dental, an American dental plan system
- Delta Faucet Company, a plumbing fixtures company
- Delta Holding, an import-export, banking, insurance and retail corporation in Serbia
- 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 robot, a specialized type of robot
- GM Delta platform, a compact car automobile platform from General Motors
- Ilford Delta, a photographic film
- Lancia Delta, a rally car made by the Italian company Lancia
- Enfield Cables Ltd, a cable manufacturer
- Delta (pen manufacturer) a fine-writing-instruments manufacturer
[edit] Entertainment and fiction
- Delta (album), a 2007 studio album by Delta Goodrem
- Delta (DVD), her first DVD released
- Delta (computer game), a 1987 horizontally-scrolling shooter computer game
- Delta (TV series), a 1992 TV series starring Delta Burke
- Delta FM, a UK radio station
- Delta, a codename used by Jason Bourne in the fiction series The Bourne Identity
- E-103 Delta, a robot in E-Series (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- R·Type Delta, the fourth R-Type game in the series
- The Delta Megazord (shaped like a capital Δ) is a zord in Power Rangers in Space
- Deltas, the working class of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
- Delta AI, A supporting Character of the Red vs Blue Series.
[edit] Other uses
[edit] People with the name
[edit] See also
- Double use of Delta (ΔΔ) is an abbreviation for the differential diagnosis of a patient
- Delta Force, a U.S. Army special force
- Beredskapstroppen, a Norwegian special police forces team
- Oldsmobile Delta 88, a car made by the US Company Oldsmobile
- Delta Halo, Halo Installation #5 in the Halo Universe
- Delta Quadrant, a quadrant of the Milky Way Galaxy depicted in Star Trek
- Delta Squad, the player's team in Star Wars: Republic Commando
- EX Delta Species, a Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion
- Delta Flyer, a shuttle craft in the Star Trek TV series Voyager
- Kamen Rider Delta, a Kamen Rider that appeared in the Japanese TV series Kamen Rider 555
- Space Patrol Delta, a fictional organization from the Power Rangers universe
- Delta waves, a low level EEG reading associated with sleep
- Delta Works, a flood-protection works in the Netherlands
- Delta baryon, a subatomic particle with spin 3/2
- Delta-v, the total effort to change from one space trajectory to another
- Delta wing
- Delta rocket, a family of launch vehicles
- Delta Formation, a formation flying manoeuvre in the shape of a V
- Enthalpy of vaporization or ΔvH, the energy required to transform a given quantity of a substance into a gas
- Standard enthalpy of formation or ΔHf
O, the change of enthalpy that accompanies the formation of 1 mole of a substance in its standard state from its constituent elements in their standard states
- Fractional charge or δ+ and δ-
- Delta switching, the process by which some rivers change their course near their deltas
- Delta-S, an industrial band from Camarillo, California
), known as del or Nabla symbol, is used as a vector differential operator
