Definition of Delta

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Definition of Delta

Delta

A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (/), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a river; as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mississippi.

The fourth letter of the Greek alphabet (/ /), answering to D.

an object having the shape of the capital /.

The closed figure produced by connecting three coils or circuits successively, end for end, esp. in a three-phase system; -- often used attributively, as delta winding, delta connection (which see), etc.

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Delta Quotations

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
Jack Nicholson

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
Muddy Waters

Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.
Edwidge Danticat

Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small.
John Hickenlooper

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.
Jeri Ryan

I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.
Charles Evers

We concluded that you cannot rely on delta hedging alone. It sounds simplistic to say that now, but back then, this was the sort of thing people were only just beginning to realize.
John Hull

I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos.
Bo Gritz

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Mark Knopfler

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.
Little Milton

Delta Translations

delta in Dutch is delta
delta in Hungarian is deltatorkolat, delta
delta in Spanish is delta

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