0 an area of low, flat land, sometimes shaped like a triangle, where a river divides into several smaller rivers before flowing into the sea:
the Mississippi delta
the delta of the Nile
1 the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet
2 an area of low, flat land, sometimes shaped approximately like a triangle, where a river divides into several smaller rivers before flowing into the sea:
the Mississippi delta
3 a change in a figure or amount
4 the measurement of how the price of an option changes compared to the price of the shares, etc. that it is based on:
Depositional architecture and facies of river and fan deltas: a synthesis.
I have in mind single river systems, major deltas, tropical rain forests, enclosed seas and so on.
Transport over rough ground; in the estuaries and deltas of great rivers; these may provide some of the fields in which hovercraft will have no competitors.
The larger the tidal prism, the larger the amount of sand that is deposited in deltas in ebb-dominated estuaries.
They inhabit inshore coastal areas such as coastal lagoons, estuarine environments, and the lower, brackish river deltas.
The type definition determines how the element is stored and how subsequent changes, known as deltas, are handled.
Delta's science department provides students with hands on experience that will prepare them for their future career and post-secondary education.
Delta's new red, white, and blue triangle logo (the widget) on their aircraft represented the jet's swept wing.