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delta

[del-tuh] / ˈdɛl tə /






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The following morning, bright and early to beat the heat, Olsi drove me the two hours from Tirana to the Vjosa Narta delta, which lies just north of the coastal city of Vlore.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Gamma measures how quickly an option’s delta changes as the underlying index moves, while net dealer gamma estimates how market makers’ exposure to the contracts they have sold, or bought, may influence their hedging activity.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

One example is delta waves, the slow and rolling electrical patterns commonly associated with deep sleep.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026

For decades, so much water has been taken that the river seldom meets the sea in Mexico, and its delta, once filled with lush wetlands and forests, has shriveled to stretches of dry riverbed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

His face was noble; a face sculpted from an aggrieved aristocracy that was bleeding out through weak tributaries in the long delta of the twentieth century.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Another 400 gigatonnes are stored in ocean sediments and river deltas.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

Among the most important contributors are heavy groundwater pumping, oil and gas extraction, the compression of relatively young sediments in river deltas, and the weight of expanding urban areas.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

The world-renowned site features iron carbonate concretions that formed some 309 million years ago, fossilizing within them ancient creatures that had once thrived in the area's lush swamps, shallow seas and river deltas.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

That means they are also imperiling some of the world’s most important food-producing lowlands in the Nile and Mekong deltas and cities from Shanghai to New York.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2025

Her eyes were the same deep-set smiles as her son’s, with more extensive deltas of creases at the corners.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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