Delta

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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:

Contents 1 Places 1.1 Canada 1.2 Nigeria 1.3 United States 2 Culture and society 2.1 Education 2.2 Entertainment and fiction 2.3 Organizations 3 Science and technology 3.1 Computer science 3.2 Earth sciences 3.3 Mathematics 3.4 Medicine and biology 3.5 Physics 4 Vehicles 5 Other uses 6 People with the name 7 See also

[edit] Places

[edit] Canada

• Delta, British Columbia
  • Delta (provincial electoral district)
  • Delta (electoral district)

[edit] Nigeria

• Delta State

[edit] United States

• Delta, Colorado
• Delta, Iowa
• Delta, Louisiana
• Delta, Missouri
• Delta, Ohio
• Delta, Pennsylvania
• Delta, Utah
• Delta, Wisconsin

[edit] Culture and society

[edit] Education

• DELTA (ELT), a professional qualification in English language teaching
• Delta, a quadra group used in socionics

[edit] Entertainment and fiction

• Delta (album), a 2007 album by Delta Goodrem
  • Delta (DVD)
• Delta (TV series), a 1992 TV series starring Delta Burke
• Delta (video game), a 1987 computer game
• Delta FM, a UK radio station
• Delta, a codename used by Jason Bourne in The Bourne Identity
• E-103 Delta, a robot character in Sonic the Hedgehog
• Delta Megazord, a zord in Power Rangers in Space
• Deltas, the working class of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
• Delta AI, a supporting character in Red vs. Blue

[edit] Organizations

• Delta (pen manufacturer), a fine-writing-instruments manufacturer
• Delta Air Lines, a U.S.-based airline
• Delta Dental, an American dental plan system
• Delta Electricity, an Australian power generation company
• Delta Electronics, a power supplies and brushless fans manufacturer
• Delta Faucet Company, a plumbing fixtures company
• Delta Force, a U.S. Army special operations force
• 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 Works, a flood-protection works in the Netherlands
• Delta, the call sign for Beredskapstroppen, a Norwegian special police forces team

[edit] Science and technology

[edit] Computer science

• Delta (computer), a Russian ZX Spectrum clone
• Delta encoding, a technique in computer communications and version-control

[edit] 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
• Δ, or epicentral distance

[edit] 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
• Δ, or difference operator
• Δ, or modular discriminant
• Δ, or symmetric difference
• Δ, a change of state between two before and after state schemas in the Z notation
• a classification in the arithmetical hierarchy
• a classification in the analytical hierarchy
• a classification in the polynomial hierarchy
• , an inverted delta representing del, a vector differential operator
• Delta connective, a unary connective in t-norm fuzzy logics
• δ_ij, the Kronecker delta function.

[edit] Medicine and biology

• Delta (genus), 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

[edit] Physics

• Delta baryon, a subatomic particle with spin 3/2

[edit] Vehicles

• Delta (rocket family), a family of launch vehicles
• Delta class submarine, a Soviet/Russian SSBN submarine series (NATO reporting name)
• Delta Formation, an aircraft formation flying manoeuvre in the shape of a V
• Delta robot, a specialized type of robot
• 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
• Delta, a tricycle layout

[edit] Other uses

• Ilford Delta, a photographic film
• Delta, the refractory section in the roof of an electric arc furnace

[edit] People with the name

• Penelope Delta (1874–1941), Greek author
• Delta Burke (born 1956), American actress
• Delta Goodrem (born 1984), Australian singer

[edit] See also

• Delta County (disambiguation)
• Mississippi Delta (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing "Delta"

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