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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 Air Lines, a U.S.-based airline

Delta may also refer to:

Places

Canada

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

Nigeria

Delta State

United States

Culture and society

Education

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

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 or Delta Radio, a former 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
Subject Delta, the protagonist of Bioshock 2

Companies

Delta (pen manufacturer), a fine-writing-instruments manufacturer
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 Electronics, a power supplies and brushless fans manufacturer
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
Visa Delta or Visa Debit

Organizations

Delta Dental, an American dental plan system
Delta Force, a U.S. Army special operations force
Delta Works, a flood-protection works in the Netherlands
Delta, the call sign for Beredskapstroppen, a Norwegian special police forces team

Science and technology

Computer science

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

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

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
δ(x − y), the Dirac delta function.

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

Physics

Delta baryon, a subatomic particle with spin 3/2

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

Other uses

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

People with the name

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

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