delta
/ˈdɛltə/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.12 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ.
noun
A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Delta from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
noun
The symbol Δ; A change in a quantity, likely from "d" for "difference".
noun
The rate of change in an option value with respect to the underlying asset's price.
noun
A value in delta notation indicating the relative abundances of isotopes.
noun
The set of differences between two versions of a file.
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."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δέλτα (délta), borrowed from a Phoenician word for "door", ultimately from Proto-Semitic *dalt-. Doublet of dalet. * (river): from the triangular shape of the majuscule Greek letter delta Δ * (USSF): from the delta wing, symbol of the USSF, a triangular wing, shaped like the majuscule Greek letter delta Δ
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: δέλτα, *dalt-