Chord may refer to: *

Chord (music) A chord, in music, is any harmonic set of pitches/frequencies consisting of multiple notes (also called "pitches") that are heard as if sounding simultaneously. For many practical and theoretical purposes, arpeggios and broken chords (in wh ...

, an aggregate of musical pitches sounded simultaneously **

Guitar chord In music, a guitar chord is a set of notes played on a guitar. A chord's notes are often played simultaneously, but they can be played sequentially in an arpeggio. The implementation of guitar chords depends on the guitar tuning. Most guitars ...

a chord played on a guitar, which has a particular tuning *

Chord (geometry) A chord of a circle is a straight line segment whose endpoints both lie on a circular arc. The infinite line extension of a chord is a secant line, or just ''secant''. More generally, a chord is a line segment joining two points on any curve, f ...

, a line segment joining two points on a curve * Chord (astronomy), a line crossing a foreground astronomical object during an occultation which gives an indication of the object's size and/or shape * Chord (graph theory), an edge joining two nonadjacent nodes in a cycle * Chord in

truss A truss is an assembly of ''members'' such as 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 that the assembla ...

construction – an outside member of a truss, as opposed to the inner "webbed members" *

Chord (aeronautics) In aeronautics, the chord is an imaginary straight line joining the leading edge and trailing edge of an aerofoil. The chord length is the distance between the trailing edge and the point where the chord intersects the leading edge. L. J. Cl ...

, 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 (peer-to-peer), a peer-to-peer protocol and algorithm for distributed hash tables (DHT) *

Chord (concurrency) A chord is a concurrency construct available in Polyphonic C♯ and Cω inspired by the join pattern of the join-calculus The join-calculus is a process calculus developed at INRIA. The join-calculus was developed to provide a formal basis fo ...

, a concurrency construct in some object-oriented programming languages * In British railway terminology, a

chord Chord may refer to: * Chord (music), an aggregate of musical pitches sounded simultaneously ** Guitar chord a chord played on a guitar, which has a particular tuning * Chord (geometry), a line segment joining two points on a curve * Chord ( ...

can refer to a short curve of track connecting two otherwise unconnected railway lines. * Andrew Chord, a comic book character who is the former mentor of the New Warriors *

Chord Overstreet Chord Paul Overstreet (born February 17, 1989) is an American actor and musician. He is best known for his role as Sam Evans on the Fox television series ''Glee'' (2009–2015). He has starred in the Apple TV+ comedy series ''Acapulco'' since 2 ...

, American actor and musician * Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector (CHORD), a proposed successor to the CHIME radio telescope * ''The Chord'' (painting), a c.1715 painting by Antoine Watteau Chord may also refer to: *

Mouse chording Mouse chording is the capability of performing actions when multiple Computer mouse, mouse buttons are held down, much like a chorded keyboard and similar to mouse gestures. One common application of mouse chording, called ''rocker navigation'', ...

or a

chorded keyboard A keyset or chorded keyboard (also called a chorded keyset, ''chord keyboard'' or ''chording keyboard'') is a computer input device that allows the user to enter characters or commands formed by pressing several keys together, like playing a "cho ...

, where multiple buttons are held down simultaneously to produce a specific action The Chords may refer to: * The Chords (British band), 1970s British mod revival band * The Chords (American band), 1950s American doo-wop group Chords may refer to: *

Chords (musician) Chords (or Jens Eric Resch Thomason; born 12 August 1978 in Lund) is a Sweden, Swedish musician. He has his own studio and label called Svart Lax but was previously signed to Timbuktu (artist), Timbuktu's label JuJu Records, together with J-Ro o ...

, a Swedish hiphop/reggae artist

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