delta

About 8.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Alternative letter-case form of Delta of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.
2. noun The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ.
3. noun A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.

   Nile Delta

4. noun Alternative letter-case form of Delta from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
5. noun The symbol Δ; A change in a quantity, likely from "d" for "difference".

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

6. noun The rate of change in an option value with respect to the underlying asset's price.
7. noun A value in delta notation indicating the relative abundances of isotopes.
8. noun The set of differences between two versions of a file.

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

Similar words

triangular triangle part region daemon share involvement participation difference involved

Often followed by

of and kappan kappa function is in region phi

Word family

Delta Deltas deltaic deltas