delta

• Missus Smith had awoken from her nap, and she and Marie stood on the aft deck, watching as the skimmer slowly cruised beneath its shadow Just past the delta was the Great Equatorial River, so broad that its far side lay beyond the horizon. —  Asimov'sSF,April-May2007
• The bones in the river and in the delta were all associated with pieces of coarse pottery, exactly the same as the natives make and use at the present day: with it we found fragments of a fine grain, only occasionally seen among Africans, and closely resembling ancient cinerary urns: none were better baked than is customary in the country now. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II, 1869-1873
• The particle that answers to this description is a baryon called the delta-plus Suppose, on the other hand, we combine a u and a a. If we subtract the spins we get a combined spin of zero, while the electric charge is seen to be 2/3 + 1/3 = 1. —  Asimov's Science Fiction - 1977_02(002)Summer
• There are three particles (known as the delta-minus, the delta-double-plus, and the omega-minus) which can only be described as ddd, uuu, and sss respectively—that is, combinations of three identical quarks. —  Asimov's Science Fiction - 1977_02(002)Summer
• Europe's largest wetland west of the Volga, the delta was a refuge for sturgeon, otter, and wild boar. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March 2002

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