DELTA

  1. (acronym) .  Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults, an advanced qualification to teach English, higher than the CELTA, accredited by the University of Cambridge.
  2. Proper noun.  A municipality in British Columbia, Canada.
  3. Noun.  The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet ''Δ'', ''δ''.
  4. Noun.  A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.
  5. Noun.  The letter ''D'' in the ICAO spelling alphabet, which assigns words to letters of the alphabet.
  6. 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''').
  7. Noun.  (mathematics) The symbol ''Δ''.
  8. Noun.  (computing, informal) A small but noticeable effect, compare with epsilon.
  9. Noun.  (computing) The set of differences between two versions of a file.
  10. Noun.  (surveying) The angle subtended at the center of a circular arc.

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