2SGan area of low land where a riverspreads into many smaller rivers near the sea 〔河口的〕三角洲
the Nile delta
尼罗河三角洲
Examples from the Corpus
delta• From these we get our word alphabet, delta, and gamma which gives us gamma rays.• They are called deltaframes and, typically, may consist of no more than 5 kilobytes of data.• They change the angle of attack from acute within the centraldelta, to near neutral over the outertriangularsailpanel.• Tom Pratt's stack of four deltaslofts his Pentax unit.• the Mississippi delta• He too migrated to Cairo to find a job, in his case from a village in the Nile delta.• Left: Typical of the rigid frame using glassfibretubing on the earlier steerable deltas is seen on this example.• This allows him to supervise all the family's vastlandholdings in the delta.
From Longman Business Dictionary
deltadel·ta /ˈdeltə/ noun [countableC usually singular]