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Definition of Deltic
1. a. Deltaic.
Definition of Deltic
1. Adjective. deltaic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deltic
1. delta [adj] - See also: delta
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deltic
Literary usage of Deltic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. What to Observe: Or, The Traveller's Remembrancer by Julian R. Jackson (1841)
"Besides such observations as may be dictated by the forgoing remarks, it is
necessary to notice the direction and length of each of the deltic branches from ..."
2. A Manual of Geographical Science: Mathematical, Physical, Historical, and by Matthew O'Brien, David Thomas Ansted, Julian R. Jackson, William Latham Bevan (1852)
"... are called deltic branches ; those which divide a delta into islands, but
return again into a deltic branch, not flowing directly into the sea, ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1881)
"A glance at the map will show that there are numerous other diverging branches •which
cut up the delta into a great number of deltic islands. ..."
4. The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1845)
"... formerly a deltic branch of the Syr Daria or Jaxartes, to which, and to'the
paper of Professor Maiden, I'shall elsewhere allude. ..."
5. Trübner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature: A Classified List of by Nikolaus Trübner (1859)
"... Confluence and deltic Branches of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, and
the Sacramento River (with the middle fork) to the American River; ..."
6. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"... Confluence and deltic branches of the Sacramento and" San Joaquín rivers, and
the Sacramento river (with the middle Fork) to the American river, ..."
7. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1893)
"... which is to be distinguished from the deltic city and other places of that
name, as this was a nome of the ..."
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