The Supreme Court's ruling, however, was neither followed by Georgia nor enforced by the U.S. government. President Andrew Jackson, sensitive to Georgia's claims of independence at a time when the states wielded considerable power, had no interest in enforcing the Court's decree.
Medical Definition of delta. 1  1: of or relating to one of four or more closely related chemical substances the delta chain of fetal hemoglobin Î´-yohimbineâused somewhat arbitrarily to specify ordinal relationship or a particular physical form and especially one that is allotropic, isomeric, or stereoisomeric (as in Î´-benzene hexachloride)
Î means the change in, and Î´ means a small amount of. Delta is the fourth letter in the Greek alphabet. The capital letter Î corresponds to the English letter D, and the lowercase Î´ corresponds to the English letter d. In chemistry, Î means the change in. Thus, #ÎT# means the change in #T#, #ÎE# means the change in #E#, and so on.