Chord or chords may refer to:
Art and music
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Chord (music)
In Western music theory, a chord is a group of notes played together for their harmony, harmonic Consonance and dissonance, consonance or dissonance. The most basic type of chord is a Triad (music), triad, so called because it consists of three ...
, an aggregate of musical pitches sounded simultaneously
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Guitar chord, a chord played on a guitar, which has a particular tuning
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The Chords (British band), 1970s British mod revival band
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The Chords (American band), 1950s American doo-wop group
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''The Chord'' (painting), a c.1715 painting by Antoine Watteau
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Andrew Chord, a comic book character who is the former mentor of the New Warriors
Mathematics
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Chord (geometry)
A chord (from the Latin ''chorda'', meaning " bowstring") of a circle is a straight line segment whose endpoints both lie on a circular arc. If a chord were to be extended infinitely on both directions into a line, the object is a ''secant l ...
, a line segment joining two points on a curve
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Chord (graph theory), an edge joining two nonadjacent nodes in a cycle
People
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Chord Overstreet, American actor and musician
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Chords (musician), a Swedish hiphop/reggae artist
Programming
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Chord (concurrency), a concurrency construct in some object-oriented programming languages
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Chord (peer-to-peer)
In computing, Chord is a protocol and algorithm for a peer-to-peer distributed hash table. A distributed hash table stores associative array, key-value pairs by assigning keys to different computers (known as "nodes"); a node will store the values ...
, a peer-to-peer protocol and algorithm for distributed hash tables (DHT)
Science and technology
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Chord (astronomy), a line crossing a foreground astronomical object during an occultation which gives an indication of the object's size and/or shape
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Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector (CHORD), a proposed successor to the
CHIME radio telescope
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Chord (aeronautics), the distance between the front and back of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow. The term chord was selected due to the curved nature of the wing's surface
* Chord in
truss
A truss is an assembly of ''members'' such as Beam (structure), beams, connected by ''nodes'', that creates a rigid structure.
In engineering, a truss is a structure that "consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so ...
construction – an outside member of a truss, as opposed to the inner "webbed members"
* In British railway terminology, a
chord can refer to a short curve of track connecting two otherwise unconnected railway lines.
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Mouse chording, the capability to perform an action when holding multiple buttons on a computer mouse.
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Chord keyboard, a computer device allowing for input based on pressing multiple keys simultaneously
See also
* Animal taxonomy
chordate (chordata) and eponymous
notochord
The notochord is an elastic, rod-like structure found in chordates. In vertebrates the notochord is an embryonic structure that disintegrates, as the vertebrae develop, to become the nucleus pulposus in the intervertebral discs of the verteb ...
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Cord (disambiguation)
Cord or CORD may refer to:
Common meanings
* String
* Thin rope
* Twine
* Cord (unit) used for measuring wood
* Power cord
* Umbilical cord
Cord or CORD may also refer to:
Places
* Cord, Arkansas
People
* Alex Cord (1933–2021), A ...
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