delta
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The VSC is a system by which the cars are forced to drive to a specified lap-time delta while a hazard on track is cleared.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Never mind that the peninsula is currently an ecologically protected area known as the Vjosa Narta, including a river delta and lagoon that is home to hundreds of species of birds, including flamingos.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Geological reconstructions indicate that the sediments containing the fossils formed in near-shore, shallow-water delta coastal environments.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 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
Yes, everything was once water, but the Earth formed out of the oceans by a natural process—similar, he thought, to the silting he had observed at the delta of the Nile.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Another 400 gigatonnes are stored in ocean sediments and river deltas.
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
Several major deltas are experiencing especially rapid elevation loss, including those of the Mekong, Nile, Chao Phraya, Ganges-Brahmaputra, Mississippi, and Yellow rivers.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 20, 2026
Over time, sediment carried by rivers built deltas at the head of the Gulf, cutting off tidal access to inland areas.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 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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