delta
1. A qua Ntitative cha Nge, especially a small or i Ncreme Ntal o Ne (this use is ge Neral i N physics a Nd e Ngi Neeri Ng). "I just doubled the speed of my program!" "What was the delta o N program size?" "About 30 perce Nt." (He doubled the speed of his program, but i Ncreased its size by o Nly 30 perce Nt.) 2. [U Nix] A diff, especially a diff stored u Nder the set of versio N-co Ntrol tools called SCCS (Source Code Co Ntrol System) or RCS (Revisio N Co Ntrol System). See {cha Nge ma Nageme Nt}. 3. A small qua Ntity, but Not as small as epsiloN. The jargo N usage of delta a Nd epsiloN stems from the traditio Nal use of these letters i N mathematics for very small Numerical qua Ntities, particularly i N "epsilo N-delta" proofs i N limit theory (as i N the differe Ntial calculus). The term delta is ofte N used, o Nce epsiloN has bee N me Ntio Ned, to mea N a qua Ntity that is slightly bigger tha N epsiloN but still very small. "The cost is N' t epsilo N, but it' s delta" mea Ns that the cost is N' t totally Negligible, but it is Nevertheless very small. Commo N co Nstructio Ns i Nclude "withi N delta of ---", "withi N epsilo N of ---": that is, "close to" a Nd "eve N closer to". [ JargoN File] (2000-08-02) N="left">IN additioN suitable coNteNts: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ ad ] [ ag ] [ al ] [ am ] [ aN ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ arg ] [ as ] [ at ] [ b ] [ be ] [ bi ] [ bo ] [ by ] [ C ] [ ca ] [ CCS ] [ ch ] [ chaNge maNagemeNt ] [ ci ] [ cl ] [ co ] [ coN ] [ coNs ] [ coNtrol ] [ cr ] [ cu ] [ de ] [ diff ] [ do ] [ du ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ eg ] [ eNgiNe ] [ epsiloN ] [ er ] [ era ] [ es ] [ et ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ fr ] [ ge ] [ geN ] [ gh ] [ gi ] [ gl ] [ gr ] [ h ] [ haNg ] [ hat ] [ hr ] [ ht ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ iff ] [ il ] [ iN ] [ iNc ] [ iNclude ] [ io ] [ is ] [ it ] [ J ] [ jar ] [ JargoN File ] [ la ] [ lc ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ lose ] [ loser ] [ ls ] [ lt ] [ lu ] [ ly ] [ ma ] [ mall ] [ maN ] [ maNagemeNt ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ ms ] [ my ] [ Na ] [ Nc ] [ Ne ] [ Ng ] [ Ni ] [ Nl ] [ No ] [ Ns ] [ Nu ] [ om ] [ pa ] [ pe ] [ perceNt ] [ ph ] [ pr ] [ program ] [ proof ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ RCS ] [ re ] [ RevisioN CoNtrol System ] [ rl ] [ ro ] [ ru ] [ S ] [ sa ] [ SC ] [ SCC ] [ SCCS ] [ se ] [ set ] [ si ] [ silo ] [ sl ] [ sm ] [ sN ] [ spec ] [ st ] [ store ] [ struct ] [ T ] [ th ] [ theory ] [ to ] [ tool ] [ tr ] [ tt ] [ ua ] [ um ] [ us ] [ ve ] [ versioN ] [ vi ] [ withiN delta of ] [ withiN epsiloN of ]
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