Delta
δ
Type it
| Unicode | U+03B4 | |
|---|---|---|
| LaTeX | \delta | |
| HTML entity | δ | |
| Character | δ |
Meaning
The lowercase fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. It usually stands for a small quantity, as in the epsilon–delta definition of a limit. Compare with Capital Delta and Epsilon.
How to read it
|x − a| < δ
is read “the absolute value of x minus a is less than delta”.