Capital Delta

Type it

Ways to write the Capital Delta symbol
UnicodeU+0394
LaTeX\Delta
HTML entityΔ
CharacterΔ

Meaning

The uppercase fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. It usually means a change or difference in a quantity. Compare with Delta and Nabla.

How to read it

Δx = x₂ − x₁

is read “delta x equals x two minus x one”.

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