Word Finder - delta

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

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A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.

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Nile Delta

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The letter D in the ICAO spelling alphabet, which assigns words to letters of the alphabet.

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The symbol Δ.

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A small but noticeable effect. Compare epsilon.

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

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The set of differences between two versions of a file.

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

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A change in a quantity, likely from "d" for "difference".

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

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The angle subtended at the center of a circular arc.

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A type of cargo bike that has one wheel in front and two in back.

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The closed figure produced by connecting three coils or circuits successively, end for end, especially in a three-phase system.

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delta winding; delta connection; delta current

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The rate of change in an option value with respect to the underlying asset's price.

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A value in delta notation indicating the relative abundances of isotopes.

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(U.S. Space Force) A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF operations wing, or an army regiment.

The delta arms sometimes remain blocked with ice the whole year round.

The most fertile soil is the alluvium of the' Delta, deposited during the overflows of the Mississippi.

The Senegal indeed has what is styled an interior delta, but, with the exception of the marigot named, all the divergent branches rejoin the main stream before the sea is reached.

As these were insufficient to give employment to all the prisoners, some were put to work on Yazoo Delta plantations on partnership contracts.

From the extreme south most of the merchantable timber had been cut, but immediately north of this there were still vast quantities of valuable long-leaf pine; in the marshes of the Delta was much cypress, the cotton-wood was nearly exhausted, and the gum was being used as a substitute for it; and on the rich upland soil were oak and red gum, also cotton-wood, hickory and maple.

The Delta is drained chiefly by the Yazoo.

The delta soil is typically a heavy, black, alluvial clay, very fertile, but difficult to work; admixture of sand is beneficial, and the localities where this occurs yield the best cotton.

The Niger delta was for long known as the Oil rivers.

Oxbow lakes and bayous are common only in the Delta.

The western shore, from the delta of the Volga to the mouth of the Kuma, a distance of 170 m., is gashed by thousands of narrow channels or lagoons, termed limans, from 12 to 30 m.

The heads of the existing old canals, taken out of the river at intervals throughout the delta, were to be closed, and the canals themselves all put into connexion with the three high-level trunk lines taken from above the barrage.

Mosquitoes are also abundant throughout the delta.

The city is situated at the head of the delta of the Mahanadi.

Situated in a marshy delta not more than 22 ft.

Beyond the delta firm ground takes the place of mud and the mangroves disappear.

The Purari, however, whose delta is 20 m.

Naukratis in the Egyptian Delta was famous under the Ptolemies for its brilliant venal women.

These Semitic tribes had been gradually encroaching into the northern delta area taking control of much of the land in the north of Egypt.

Parnahyba is situated at the point where the most easterly of the delta outlets, or channels, called the Rio Iguarassu, branches off from the main stream.

The western, or Behera, canal was thoroughly cleared out and remodelled; and thus the whole delta irrigation was supplied from above the barrage.

Some statues and sphinxes, found in 1861 by Marlette at Tanis (in the northeast of the Delta), which had been usurped by later kings, had peculiar "un-Egyptian" features.

Semitic features were pointed out in the supposed Hyksos names, and Petrie was convinced of their date by his excavations of1905-1906in the eastern Delta.

Beyond the Delta eastward the coast is again barren and without harbours.

Like all the Delta lakes, Mareotis abounds in wild-fowl.

Menzala greatly exceeds the other Delta lakes in size, covering over 780 sq.

The lotus, greatly prized for its flowers by the ancient inhabitants, is still found in the Delta, though never in the Nile itself.

The wild boar is found in the Delta.

Situated on the Delta in the midst of a fertile district, Zagazig is a great centre of the cotton and grain trade of Egypt.

So also with the numerous bronzes, the phosphor, the delta, the aluminium and other alloys of copper; each is made in several grades to render it suitable for different kinds of treatment.

With the exception of a small portion of the great delta plain, which extends across the frontier from the province of Kiang-su, and in which are situated the famous cities of Hu Chow, Ka-hing, Hang-chow, Shao-Sing and Ning-po, the province forms a portion of the Nan-shan of south-eastern China, and is hilly throughout.

Menander (126 B.C.) invaded India at least to the Jumna, and perhaps also to the Indus delta.

Stretching south-eastwards from the delta of the Irrawaddy, a confused succession of little explored ranges separates the Burmese division of Tenasserim from the native kingdom of Siam.

The thickness of the delta deposit is unknown; 481 ft.

Eastward from the Bengal delta, two alluvial plains stretch up between the hills which connect the Himalayan system with that of the Burmese peninsula.

The Bengal Central serves the lower Gangetic delta.

The delta is the largest in Africa and covers 14,000 sq.

That the vast network of rivers on the Guinea coast, of which the Nun was the chief, known as the Oil Rivers, formed the delta.

The delta of the Niger has been partially surveyed since it became British territory by various ship captains, officials of the Royal Niger Company and others, including Sir Harry Johnston, sometime British consul for the Oil Rivers.

Ground-nuts and sesame are grown in large quantities for the oil they yield, and cotton of quality equal to that grown in the Delta is produced.

But even in the period of disintegration the minor princes of the Delta were no doubt associated with their eastern neighbours, and although the Assyrian Musri stands in the same relation to the people of Philistia as do the Edomites and allied tribes of the Old Testament, Philistia itself was always intimately associated with Egypt.

The latter, unable to withstand the phalanx, abandoned their chief town, and fled to the steppes (Po-La g pmuos, north of the Danube delta), whither Alexander was unwilling to follow them.

Beyond contracting with smith is a carries the California delta dental insurance titles.

It is therefore interpreted as a flood tide delta.

Molar ellipticity, mean residue ellipticity and delta epsilons are all mentioned in the literature.

At Tulcea we'll board our private houseboat in time for dinner, with an evening cruise toward the heart of the Delta.

They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki.

Women and their health insurance mart plan wal reform and economic by reductions in purchase offer delta.

Delta does the nitty-gritty work a well as implementing strategic decisions.

The DJ will match this with a Danube Delta groove selected from the best of Romanian modern music plus a few oldies for fun.

Must face the the delta queen affords panoramas of.