Delta

/ˈdɛltə/ · noun

Meaning

The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ..

Definitions by Sense

1. The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ.
2. A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.
3. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Delta from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
4. (mathematics, physics, engineering) The symbol Δ; A change in a quantity, likely from "d" for "difference".
5. (finance) The rate of change in an option value with respect to the underlying asset's price.
6. (chemistry) A value in delta notation indicating the relative abundances of isotopes.
7. (computing) The set of differences between two versions of a file.
8. (computing, informal) A small but noticeable effect. Compare epsilon.

Example Sentences

Nile Delta

ΔV - "delta vee"(change in velocity, used in rocketry and orbital mechanics)

When you update the file, the system will only save the deltas.

This will slow the main code path down, but only by delta.

delta winding; delta connection; delta current

Turingery worked on deltaed key to produce the deltaed contribution of the chi-wheels. Turing's discovery that delta-ing would reveal information otherwise hidden was essential to the developments that followed.

The primary function of this command is to delta the product version file (if it has been retrieved for edit). However, prior to deltaing the product version file, the work source tree is searched to verify that no other source files are still waiting to be deltaed.

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Word Forms

• deltas
• deltaing
• deltaed

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