Usually means: Change in value due to
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We found 72 dictionaries that define the word delta:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Delta, The Delta, delta: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Delta, delta, delta, the Delta: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Delta, delta: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. delta: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Delta, delta: Wordnik
  6. delta: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. DELTA, delta: Wiktionary
  8. delta: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. delta: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. delta: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. delta: Dictionary.com
  12. delta: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. delta: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. DELTA (Dutch cable operator), DELTA (ELT), DELTA (taxonomy), Delta (Delta Goodrem album), Delta (Mumford & Sons album), Delta (TV series), Delta (Visions of Atlantis album), Delta (airship), Delta (album), Delta (computer game), Delta (disambiguation), Delta (electoral district), Delta (federal electoral district), Delta (finance), Delta (geography), Delta (horse), Delta (landform), Delta (letter), Delta (provincial electoral district), Delta (river), Delta (rocket family), Delta (video album), Delta (video game), Delta (wasp), Delta (wrestler), Delta, The Delta (film), The Delta: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Delta: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. delta: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. delta: Rhymezone
  18. Delta: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. DELTA: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. delta: Free Dictionary
  21. delta: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Delta, delta: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. Delta: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. delta: Vocabulary.com
  25. Delta: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Faulkner Glossary (No longer online)

Business (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. delta: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Delta: bizterms.net
  5. Delta, delta: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. delta: Glossary of research economics
  7. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Delta: Harvey Financial
  9. Delta: Moneyterms
  10. Delta, Delta, Delta: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  11. delta: Finance-Glossary.com
  12. Delta: Investopedia
  13. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  14. Delta (disambiguation), Delta: Financial dictionary
  15. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  16. Delta: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  17. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Delta, delta: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. The Microsoft Lexicon (No longer online)
  3. Delta (disambiguation), Delta (particle), delta: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Delta-, Delta (disambiguation), delta: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DELTA: Acronym Finder
  2. Delta: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. delta: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Delta: Archaeology Wordsmith
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  4. delta: Dictionary of Geology
  5. Delta: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  6. delta: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Delta, Delta, delta (airlines): Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. delta: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. DELTA: Energy Terms
  3. delta: Canadian Soil Information System
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  8. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  9. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See deltaic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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:  (mathematics, physics, engineering) The symbol Δ; A change in a quantity, likely from "d" for "difference".
noun:  (finance) The rate of change in an option value with respect to the underlying asset's price.
noun:  (chemistry) A value in delta notation indicating the relative abundances of isotopes.
noun:  (computing) The set of differences between two versions of a file.
noun:  (computing, informal) A small but noticeable effect. Compare epsilon.
noun:  (surveying) The angle subtended at the center of a circular arc.
noun:  A type of cargo bike that has one wheel in front and two in back.
noun:  (electrical, often attributive) The closed figure produced by connecting three coils or circuits successively, end for end, especially in a three-phase system.
noun:  (US, military, U.S. Space Force) A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF operations wing, or an army regiment.
noun:  (astronomy) a star that is usually the fourth brightest of a constellation.
noun:  (physics) one of four baryons consisting of up and down quarks with a combined spin of 3/2: Δ⁺⁺ (uuu), Δ⁺ (uud), Δ⁰ (udd), or Δ⁻ (ddd)
verb:  (cryptography) To calculate the differences between the characters in an enciphered text and the characters a fixed number of positions previous.
verb:  (computing) To compare two versions of the same file in order to determine where they differ (where a programmer has made edits).
noun:  A state of Nigeria in the South South geopolitical zone. Capital: Asaba. Largest city: Warri.
noun:  A municipality in Central Macedonia, Greece.
noun:  A municipality of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
noun:  A municipality of British Columbia, Canada.
noun:  A village in Ontario, Canada.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Clay County, Alabama.
noun:  A city and home rule municipality, the county seat of Delta County, Colorado.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Saline County, Illinois.
noun:  A city in Keokuk County, Iowa.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Wayne County, Kentucky.
noun:  A village in Madison Parish, Louisiana.
noun:  A city in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Stokes County, North Carolina.
noun:  A village in Fulton County, Ohio.
noun:  A borough in York County, Pennsylvania.
noun:  A city in Millard County, Utah.
noun:  A town and unincorporated community in Bayfield County, Wisconsin.
noun:  The Delta variant of COVID-19.
noun:  (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Delta from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
noun:  (medicine) Short for delta variant. (variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus)
noun:  Acronym of Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, an advanced qualification to teach English, higher than the CELTA, accredited by the University of Cambridge.

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