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chord

Found in thesaurus: straight line, note, musical note, tone, play, change, modify, alter

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chord
n. (Music) combination of harmonizing notes; (Geometry) line between two points on a curve; (Airplanes) imaginary straight line between the leading edge and the rear edge of a wing or propeller blade

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Chord
Chord may refer to:
  • Chord (music), an aggregate of musical pitches sounded simultaneously
    • Chord (guitar) a chord played on a guitar, which has a particular tuning
  • Chord (geometry), 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 objects size and/or shape
  • Chord (graph theory), an edge joining two not-adjacent nodes in a cycle
  • Chord (truss construction), an outside member of a truss, as opposed to the inner "webbed members"
  • 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 (peer-to-peer), a peer-to-peer protocol and algorithm for distributed hash tables (DHT)
  • Chord (concurrency), a concurrency construct in some object-oriented programming languages
  • Chord (comics), a comic book character who is the former mentor of the New Warriors
  • Chord (software), free software useful for creating staffless lead sheets
  • Chord Overstreet, American actor and musician

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chord
Noun
1. a straight line connecting two points on a curve
(hypernym) straight line
2. a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
(hypernym) note, musical note, tone
(hyponym) arpeggio
Verb
1. play chords on (a string instrument)
(hypernym) play
(classification) music
2. bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing
(synonym) harmonize, harmonise
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
(hyponym) key
(classification) music


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chord
n. akord; tětiva

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chord
Rzecz. akord