delta - Abbreviations, People, Places

A fan-shaped body of alluvium enclosed within the bifurcating channels at the mouth of a river. It is formed when a river deposits sediment as its speed decreases, and the coastal processes of erosion are not sufficiently strong to carry the material away. Deltas may take many forms, depending on the environmental factors at the river mouth, but in all cases the coarse sediment is deposited first, with progressively finer material carried further out from the shore. Deltas may form large fertile plains, but are subject to frequent flooding. Among the largest deltas are those of the Nile, the Ganges–Brahmaputra and the Mississippi rivers.

the Kronecker delta, a function of two variables which is 1 when they are equal the Dirac delta function, a distribution used as an approximation for a spike function Delta encoding, a technique in computer communications and version-control

In mathematical finance

one of the Greeks used in option and derivatives pricing representing the rate of change of the option price with respect to changes in the underlying price

Companies and products:

Delta Air Lines, a major U.S. airline Delta Hotels, a major Canadian Hotel chain with 40 properties Delta Faucet Company, a plumbing fixtures company Delta Holding, an import-export, banking, insurance and retail corporation in Serbia Delta Machinery, a stationary power tools and equipment company Delta (computer), a Russian ZX Spectrum clone Delta robot, a specialized type of robot Delta rocket, a family of rockets built by Boeing IDS GM Delta platform, a compact car automobile platform from General Motors Lancia Delta, a famous rally car made by Italian company Lancia Visa Debit (formally Delta), a debit card Delta Environmental Consultants, and environmental remediation company based in St. Paul, MN

In entertainment and fiction:

Delta (computer game), a 1987 horizontally-scrolling shooter computer game Delta Dance, a Eurobeat music label EX Delta Species, a Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion Delta Quadrant, a quadrant of the Milky Way Galaxy depicted in Star Trek Delta FM, a UK radio station Delta (fictional character), one of Jason Bourne's numerous codenames in Robert Ludlum's "The Bourne Identity." E-103 Delta, a robot in the Sonic the Hedgehog series

Special forces:

Delta Force, a U.S. Army special force Beredskapstroppen, a norwegian special police forces team

Other:

Delta Works, a flood-protection works in the Netherlands

Abbreviations

DELTA (ELT), an advanced diploma in English language teaching DELTA (taxonomy), the DEscription Language for TAxonomy

People

Delta Goodrem, Australian singer and actress Delta Burke, American actress

Places

In Canada:

Delta, British Columbia Delta (provincial electoral district) Delta (electoral district) a federal electoral district, 2003-present

In Egypt:

the Nile Delta

In Nigeria:

Delta State, Nigeria

In the United States:

Delta, Colorado Delta, Iowa Delta, Kentucky Delta, Louisiana Delta, Missouri Delta, Ohio Delta, Pennsylvania Delta, Utah Delta, Wisconsin Delta Charter Township, Michigan Mississippi Delta, an alluvial plain in the state of Mississippi

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