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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Deltas | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Delta \Del"ta\, n.; pl. {Deltas}. [Gr. de`lta, the name of the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet (the capital form of which is [DELTA], Eng. D), from the Ph[d2]nician name of the corresponding letter. The Greeks called the alluvial deposit at the mouth of the Nile, from its shape, the Delta of the Nile.] A tract of land shaped like the letter delta ([DELTA]), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a river; as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mississippi. | |
