Delta
WordNet
noun
(1) The 4th letter of the Greek alphabet
(2) A low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
WiktionaryText
Noun
- The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ.
- A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.
- The letter D in the ICAO spelling alphabet, which assigns words to letters of the alphabet.
- δ In the IPA, the symbol that represents the voiced dental fricative, the hard th in the English word father; frequently represented by the Icelandic eth (ð).
- The symbol Δ.
- A small but noticeable effect, compare with epsilon.
- This will slow the main code path down, but only by delta.
- The set of differences between two versions of a file.
- When you update the file, the system will only save the deltas.
- The angle subtended at the center of a circular arc.