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2. Delta (letter) - Wikipedia

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   Delta (/ ˈdɛltə /; [1] uppercase Δ, lowercase δ; Greek: δέλτα, délta, [ˈðelta]) [2] is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 4. It was derived from the Phoenician letter dalet 𐤃. [3] Letters that come from delta include Latin D and Cyrillic Д.

3. Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

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   t. e. Greek letters are used in mathematics, science, engineering, and other areas where mathematical notation is used as symbols for constants, special functions, and also conventionally for variables representing certain quantities. In these contexts, the capital letters and the small letters represent distinct and unrelated entities.

4. Glossary of mathematical symbols - Wikipedia

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   Glossary of mathematical symbols. A mathematical symbol is a figure or a combination of figures that is used to represent a mathematical object, an action on mathematical objects, a relation between mathematical objects, or for structuring the other symbols that occur in a formula. As formulas are entirely constituted with symbols of various ...

5. ∂ - Wikipedia

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   The character ∂ (Unicode: U+2202) is a stylized cursive d mainly used as a mathematical symbol, usually to denote a partial derivative such as (read as "the partial derivative of z with respect to x "). [1][2] It is also used for boundary of a set, the boundary operator in a chain complex, and the conjugate of the Dolbeault operator on smooth ...

6. ΔT - Wikipedia

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   ΔT (timekeeping) the difference between two time scales, Universal Time and Terrestrial Time, which results from a drift in the length of a day. The interval of time used in determining velocity. The increment between successive nerve impulses.

7. Dirac delta function - Wikipedia

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   In mathematical analysis, the Dirac delta function (or δ distribution), also known as the unit impulse, [1] is a generalized function on the real numbers, whose value is zero everywhere except at zero, and whose integral over the entire real line is equal to one. [2][3][4] Since there is no function having this property, modelling the delta ...