DELTA
What does "DELTA" mean?
A triangular landform of sediment where a river splits and empties into a sea or lake.
Meanings
- The fan-shaped deposit of silt and channels at a river's mouth. The Nile delta spreads across the coast in a broad green fan.
- The fourth letter of the Greek alphabet, written as a triangle. She labeled the third vertex of the triangle with a delta.
- A difference or change in a quantity, especially in math, science, or finance. The report tracked the delta between forecast and actual sales. technical
Did you know?
- The word for every river delta on Earth comes from a Greek letter: the historian Herodotus saw the Nile's triangular mouth and called it a 'delta' (Δ), and the shape kept the name worldwide.
Word origin
From Greek 'delta', the triangular fourth letter; Herodotus applied the name to the Nile's mouth because its shape resembled the letter, and the geographic sense spread from there.
Remember it
A capital Greek delta is a triangle - the same triangle a river spreads into as it meets the sea.
A little poem
The river loosens-
one road splits to a hundred
threads of silver mud.
haiku
Wordplay
- The river couldn't make up its mind at the coast, so it just took every path at once - a real delta of indecision.
What it teaches
A river reaches the sea not by staying one stream but by becoming a hundred.
Quick facts
What does DELTA mean?
A triangular landform of sediment where a river splits and empties into a sea or lake.
Is DELTA a valid word?
Yes — DELTA is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is DELTA?
DELTA has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does DELTA come from?
From Greek 'delta', the triangular fourth letter; Herodotus applied the name to the Nile's mouth because its shape resembled the letter, and the geographic sense spread from there.
What can DELTA teach us?
A river reaches the sea not by staying one stream but by becoming a hundred.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.