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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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[oe]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.
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