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Delta (/ ˈ d ɛ l t ə /; [1] uppercase Δ, lowercase δ; Greek: δέλτα, délta, ) [2] is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals , it has a value of four. It was derived from the Phoenician letter dalet 𐤃. [ 3 ]
Delta commonly refers to: Delta (letter) (Δ or δ), the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet D (NATO phonetic alphabet: "Delta"), the fourth letter in the Latin alphabet
Acrophony (/ ə ˈ k r ɒ f ə n i /; Ancient Greek: ἄκρος, romanized: akros, lit. 'uppermost' + φωνή phone 'sound') is the naming of letters of an alphabetic writing system so that a letter's name begins with the letter itself.
Delta (letter) (Δ), a Greek letter also used in mathematics and computer science; Delta baryon (Δ), one of several Baryons consisting of up and down quarks. alt-J (Δ), a British indie band; Laplace operator (Δ), a differential operator; Increment operator (∆)
The Boot Monument is an American Revolutionary War memorial located in Saratoga National Historical Park in the state of New York.Sculpted by George Edwin Bissell and erected during 1887 by John Watts de Peyster, it commemorates Major General Benedict Arnold's service at the Battles of Saratoga while in the Continental Army, but does not mention him on the monument as Arnold later defected ...
But in reality, the Delta symbol traces its origins all the way back to the Greek alphabet. Here, the evolution of the Delta is traced from those ancient beginnings, through the development of rocketry the space race of the 20th Century, all the way to the present day with the founding of the sixth branch of the American armed forces.
The descenders were borrowed from a Byzantine uncial shape of uppercase Delta. De, like the Cyrillic letter El, has two typographical variants: an older variant where its top is pointed (like Delta), and a modern one (first used in mid-19th-century fonts) where it is square. Nowadays, almost all books and magazines are printed with fonts with ...
Alphabet (formal languages), in formal language theory, a finite sequence of members of an underlying base set; English alphabet, a Latin alphabet consisting of 26 letters used to write the English language; ISO basic Latin alphabet, a character-encoding standard