DELTA
- (acronym) . Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults, an advanced qualification to teach English, higher than the CELTA, accredited by the University of Cambridge.
- Proper noun. A municipality in British Columbia, Canada.
- 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. The letter ''D'' in the ICAO spelling alphabet, which assigns words to letters of the alphabet.
- Noun. (phonetics) '''δ''' In the IPA, the symbol that represents the voiced dental fricative, the hard ''th'' in the English word ''fa'''th'''er''; frequently represented by the Icelandic eth ('''ð''').
- Noun. (mathematics) The symbol ''Δ''.
- Noun. (computing, informal) A small but noticeable effect, compare with epsilon.
- Noun. (computing) The set of differences between two versions of a file.
- Noun. (surveying) The angle subtended at the center of a circular arc.
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