Delta

Delta commonly refers to:

Delta (letter) (Δ or δ), a letter of the Greek alphabet
River delta, a landform at the mouth of a river
D (NATO phonetic alphabet: "Delta"), the fourth letter of the modern English alphabet
Delta Air Lines, an American airline

Delta may also refer to:

Places

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

Delta Megazord, a zord in Power Rangers in Space
Deltas, the working class of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

Film and television

Delta (2008 film), a Hungarian film
Delta (TV series), a 1992 TV series starring Delta Burke

Music

alt-J (∆), British indie band
Delta blues, one of the earliest styles of blues music
"Delta", a song by Crosby, Stills & Nash from Daylight Again David Crosby 1982

Albums

Delta (video album), a 2003 DVD by Delta Goodrem
Delta (Delta Goodrem album), 2007
Delta (Visions of Atlantis album), 2011
Delta (Mumford & Sons album), 2018
Delta, a 2013 album by Shapeshifter

Other media

Delta (magazine), a small poetry magazine
Delta (magazine), a science magazine
Delta (video game), a 1987 video game
Delta FM or Delta Radio, a former UK radio station

Businesses and organizations

Companies

Delta Air Lines, an American airline
- Delta Connection, a regional brand name for Delta Air Lines
Delta Bank, a Ukrainian bank
Delta Cafés, a Portuguese coffee roasting and coffee packaging company
Delta Electric Company, defunct electrical parts company
Delta Electricity, an Australian power generation company
Delta Electronics, a Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company
Delta Faucet Company, a plumbing fixtures company
Delta Holding, a Serbian import-export, banking, insurance and retail corporation
Delta Hotels, a Canadian hotel chain
Delta Machinery, a stationary power tools and equipment company
Delta Motor Corporation, a South African car manufacturer owned by General Motors
Delta Motors Corporation, a defunct Filipino auto manufacturer
DELTA (Dutch cable operator) , Dutch cable operator

Schools

Delta State (disambiguation), several universities
Delta College (disambiguation)
Delta Academy (disambiguation)
Delta Secondary School (disambiguation)
Delta High School (disambiguation)
Delta School District (disambiguation)
Delta Career Education Corporation, US
Delta International University of New Orleans, Louisiana, US
Delta Schools, international schools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Military

Delta Force, a U.S. Army special operations force
Emergency Response Unit (Norway) (call sign Delta), a Norwegian special police forces team
Space Force Delta, the symbol of the United States Space Force

Other organizations

STC Delta, a Georgian research and development center
American Delta Party, an American political party
San Francisco Deltas, a soccer team

Finance

Delta (finance), a first order derivative of an option pricing formula versus the underlying spot price
Visa Delta or Visa Debit, a brand of debit card

People

David Macbeth Moir (1798-1851), Scottish physicians and writer, under the signature Δ
Delta Burke (born 1956), American actress
Delta Goodrem (born 1984), Australian singer
Penelope Delta (1874–1941), Greek author
Delta (wrestler) (born 1985), Mexican professional wrestler

Science, technology, and mathematics

Chemistry

Δ (delta) vs. Λ (lambda) isomers to indicate right vs. left handed propeller twists in coordination complexes
δ (delta) convention, for designating allenes and other cumulated dienes in rings named according to a non-cumulated parent structure
Double bond isomers, for example in fatty acids, cloprostenol, Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol

Computing

Delta (computer), a Russian ZX Spectrum clone
Delta encoding or delta compression, a technique in computer communications and version control
Delta timing, a technique used in iterative processes to keep track of time and prevent lag

Earth sciences

Epicentral distance (Δ)
Subtropical Storm Delta (1972), a subtropical storm of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season
Tropical Storm Delta (2005), a tropical storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season

Mathematics

Δ, a difference of state between two before and after state schemas in the Z notation
$\delta$ , the first Feigenbaum constant
Delta connective, a unary connective in t-norm fuzzy logics
Delta method, a method for approximating the distribution of a function of a random variable
Difference operator (Δ)
Dirac delta function ( $δ$ function)
Laplace operator (Δ)
Modular discriminant (Δ)
Symmetric difference (Δ)
Non-inferiority margin (δ)
Δ^m
_n, a class of sets in the analytical hierarchy, for every natural number m, n

Medicine and biology

Delta (ligand), an activator of the Notch signaling pathway
DELTA (taxonomy), a data format used in taxonomy for recording descriptions of living things
Delta (wasp), Old World genus of potter wasps
Delta wave, a brain wave

Vehicles

Delta (rocket family), a family of launch vehicles
Delta, a tricycle layout
Delta Formation, an aircraft formation flying manoeuvre in the shape of a V
Delta wing, an aircraft wing planform in the form of a triangle
Delta-class submarine (NATO reporting name), a Soviet/Russian SSBN submarine series
GM Delta platform, a compact car automobile platform from General Motors
Lancia Delta, an Italian rally car
Oldsmobile Delta 88, a full-size General Motors car made from 1965 to 1983
TrikeBuggy Delta, an American ultralight trike design

Other uses in science and technology

Delta, the refractory section in the roof of an electric arc furnace
Delta, a quadra group used in socionics
Delta baryon, a subatomic particle with spin 3/2
Delta circuit, in three-phase electric power
Delta robot, a specialized type of parallel robot
Ilford Delta, a photographic film

Sport

Delta (horse) (1946–1960), a champion Australian thoroughbred racehorse
Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils and Devilettes, an intercollegiate sports teams of the Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena, Mississippi
San Francisco Deltas, a soccer team
Delta (orienteering club), a former Finnish club

Other uses

Delta Dental, an American dental plan system
Delta Works, a flood-protection works in the Netherlands
Delta, a font designed by Aldo Novarese
Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, a professional certification

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