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Delta commonly refers to:
- Delta (letter) (Δ or δ), a letter of the Greek alphabet
- River delta, a landform at the mouth of a river
- D (NATO phonetic alphabet: "Delta"), the fourth letter of the modern English alphabet
- Delta Air Lines, an American airline
Delta may also refer to:
Places
Canada
- Delta, British Columbia
- Delta (electoral district), federal electoral district
- Delta (provincial electoral district)
- Delta, Ontario
United States
- Mississippi Delta, a region in Mississippi
- Delta, Alabama
- Delta, Colorado
- Delta, Illinois
- Delta, Iowa
- Delta, Kentucky
- Delta, Louisiana
- Delta, Missouri
- Delta, North Carolina
- Delta, Ohio
- Delta, Pennsylvania
- Delta, Utah
- Delta, Wisconsin, a town
- Delta (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Delta County (disambiguation)
Elsewhere
- Delta Island, Antarctica
- Delta Stream, Antarctica
- Delta, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Delta, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Delta State, Nigeria
- Colonia Delta, Uruguay
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
- Delta AI, a supporting character in Red vs. Blue
- Delta Megazord, a zord in Power Rangers in Space
- Deltas, the working class of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Film and television
- Delta (2008 film), a Hungarian film
- Delta (TV series), a 1992 TV series starring Delta Burke
Music
- alt-J (∆), British indie band
- Delta blues, one of the earliest styles of blues music
- "Delta", a song by Crosby, Stills & Nash from Daylight Again David Crosby 1982
Albums
- Delta (video album), a 2003 DVD by Delta Goodrem
- Delta (Delta Goodrem album), 2007
- Delta (Visions of Atlantis album), 2011
- Delta (Mumford & Sons album), 2018
- Delta, a 2013 album by Shapeshifter
Other media
- Delta (magazine), a small poetry magazine
- Delta (video game), a 1987 video game
- Delta FM or Delta Radio, a former UK radio station
- Delta, a character from the video game Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
Businesses and organizations
Companies
- Delta Air Lines, an American airline
- Delta Connection, a regional brand name for Delta Air Lines
- Delta Bank, a Ukrainian bank
- Delta Cafés, a Portuguese coffee roasting and coffee packaging company
- Delta Electric Company, defunct electrical parts company
- Delta Electricity, an Australian power generation company
- Delta Faucet Company, a plumbing fixtures company
- 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 Motors Corporation, a defunct Filipino auto manufacturer
- DELTA NV , former Dutch energy company, rebranded to PZEM on 1 March 2017
Schools
- Delta State (disambiguation), several universities
- Delta College (disambiguation)
- Delta Academy (disambiguation)
- Delta Secondary School (disambiguation)
- Delta High School (disambiguation)
- Delta School District (disambiguation)
- Delta Career Education Corporation, US
- Delta International University of New Orleans, Louisiana, US
- Delta Schools, international schools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Military
- Delta Force, a U.S. Army special operations force
- Emergency Response Unit (Norway) (call sign Delta), a Norwegian special police forces team
Other organizations
- STC Delta, a Georgian research and development center
- American Delta Party, an American political party
- San Francisco Deltas, a soccer team
Finance
- Delta (finance), a first order derivative of an option pricing formula versus the underlying spot price
- Visa Delta or Visa Debit, a brand of debit card
People
- Delta Burke (born 1956), American actress
- Delta Goodrem (born 1984), Australian singer
- Penelope Delta (1874–1941), Greek author
- Delta (wrestler) (born 1985), Mexican professional wrestler
Science, technology, and mathematics
Chemistry
- Δ (delta) vs. Λ (lambda) isomers to indicate right vs. left handed propeller twists in coordination complexes
- δ (delta) convention, for designating allenes and other cumulated dienes in rings named according to a non-cumulated parent structure
- Double bond isomers, for example in fatty acids, cloprostenol, Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol
Computing
- Delta (computer), a Russian ZX Spectrum clone
- Delta encoding or delta compression, a technique in computer communications and version control
- Delta timing, a technique used in iterative processes to keep track of time and prevent lag
Earth sciences
- Epicentral distance (Δ)
- Subtropical Storm Delta (1972), a subtropical storm of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season
- Tropical Storm Delta (2005), a tropical storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
Mathematics
- Δ, a difference of state between two before and after state schemas in the Z notation
- , the first Feigenbaum constant
- Delta connective, a unary connective in t-norm fuzzy logics
- Delta method, a method for approximating the distribution of a function of a random variable
- Difference operator (Δ)
- Dirac delta function (δ function)
- Laplace operator (Δ)
- Modular discriminant (Δ)
- Symmetric difference (Δ)
Medicine and biology
- Delta (ligand), an activator of the Notch signaling pathway
- DELTA (taxonomy), a data format used in taxonomy for recording descriptions of living things
- Delta (wasp), Old World genus of potter wasps
- Delta wave, a brain wave
Vehicles
- Delta (rocket family), a family of launch vehicles
- Delta, a tricycle layout
- Delta Formation, an aircraft formation flying manoeuvre in the shape of a V
- Delta wing, an aircraft wing planform in the form of a triangle
- Delta-class submarine (NATO reporting name), a Soviet/Russian SSBN submarine series
- GM Delta platform, a compact car automobile platform from General Motors
- Lancia Delta, an Italian rally car
- Oldsmobile Delta 88, a full-size General Motors car made from 1965 to 1983
- TrikeBuggy Delta, an American ultralight trike design
Other uses in science and technology
- Delta, the refractory section in the roof of an electric arc furnace
- Delta baryon, a subatomic particle with spin 3/2
- Delta circuit, in three-phase electric power
- Delta robot, a specialized type of parallel robot
- Ilford Delta, a photographic film
Sport
- Delta (horse) (1946–1960), a champion Australian thoroughbred racehorse
- Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils and Devilettes, an intercollegiate sports teams of the Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena, Mississippi
- San Francisco Deltas, a soccer team
Other uses
- Delta Dental, an American dental plan system
- Delta Works, a flood-protection works in the Netherlands
- Delta, a quadra group used in socionics
- Delta, a font designed by Aldo Novarese
- Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, a professional certification
See also
- Delta model, a strategic management model
- The Delta (disambiguation)
- Nabla symbol ( ), an inverted delta representing del, a vector differential operator
- Kronecker delta ( ), a function
- , represents a triangle defined by points A, B and C
- (ε, δ)-definition of limit
- (%CH), a percentage change operation found on some calculators
- , a classification in the arithmetical hierarchy
- , a classification in the analytical hierarchy
- , a classification in the polynomial hierarchy
- δ13C, a measure of the ratio of stable isotopes 13C:12C
- δ15N, a measure of the ratio of stable isotopes 15N:14N
- δ18O, 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 1 (disambiguation)
- Delta 4 (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with Delta
- All pages with a title containing Delta
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