Delta

//ˈdɛltə//

"Delta" in a Sentence (18 examples)

In 2008, Delta and Northwest airlines united to form the world's largest airline.

The Mississippi delta has changed shape drastically over the course of its history.

The river delta has flooded many times. I don't know why anyone continues to build there.

The Moon's Mons Hadley Delta is 15,000 feet tall, and makes up part of the rim of a deep crater from an asteroid impact billions of years ago.

An avid watcher of nature documentaries, Bell said that she and her young daughters Lincoln and Delta particularly love David Attenborough and the "Planet Earth" series.

Mounting research blames a confluence of rising sea levels driven by global warming and the damming and dredging of key rivers and their tributaries for the rapid sinking and shrinking of Asia's seven major delta systems, from the Indus in Pakistan to the Pearl in China.

The Pearl River Delta, which empties into the South China Sea past Hong Kong, has been dubbed the "world's workshop" for its abundance of busy factories.

In Vietnam, forecasters say 1 million people will have to leave the Mekong River Delta, the country's rice bowl, by 2050.

"So while we are worried about numerous ecosystems around the world, we really need to be putting special attention on our delta systems and the wetlands and all the other ecosystems they support," she added.

These giraffes live in the Okavango Delta.

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

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

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

delta winding; delta connection; delta current

Turingery worked on deltaed key to produce the deltaed contribution of the chi-wheels. Turing's discovery that delta-ing would reveal information otherwise hidden was essential to the developments that followed.

The primary function of this command is to delta the product version file (if it has been retrieved for edit). However, prior to deltaing the product version file, the work source tree is searched to verify that no other source files are still waiting to be deltaed.

The xʷəxʷilməxʷ (Indigenous Peoples) recognized how the meeting of the təməxʷ (land), stal̓əw̓ (river), and k̓ʷaƛ̓k̓ʷa (sea) could provide an abundance of access to seasonal resources, as well as provide a more permanent residence for the scəw̓aθən məsteyəxʷ (Tsawwassen Peoples). The features of this landscape are part of what makes Delta a beautiful place for all to enjoy today.

Delta is moderately resistant to vaccines, particularly in people who have received just a single dose.

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