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
In music, a guitar Chord (music), chord is a Set (mathematics), set of Musical note, 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 chor ...
, a chord played on a guitar, which has a particular tuning
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The Chords (British band)
The Chords are a 1970s British pop music group, commonly associated with the 1970s mod revival, who had several hits in their homeland, before the decline of the trend brought about their break-up. They were one of the more successful groups ...
, 1970s British mod revival band
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The Chords (American band)
The Chords were an American doo-wop vocal group formed in 1951 in The Bronx, known for their 1954 hit "Sh-Boom", which they wrote. It is the only song they created that reached mainstream popularity.
Career
The group was formed by friends from a ...
, 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
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 20 ...
, 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)
In the field of astronomy the term chord typically refers to a line crossing an object which is traversed during an occultation event. By taking accurate measurements of the start and end times of the event, in conjunction with the known location ...
, 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
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ...
(CHORD), a proposed successor to the
CHIME radio telescope
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Chord (aeronautics)
In aeronautics, the chord is an imaginary straight line segment joining the leading edge and trailing edge of an aerofoil cross section parallel to the direction of the airflow. The chord length is the distance between the trailing edge and ...
, 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
Mouse chording is the capability of performing actions when multiple mouse buttons are held down, much like a chorded keyboard and similar to mouse gestures.
One common application of mouse chording, called ''rocker navigation'', is found in Op ...
, the capability to perform an action when holding multiple buttons on a computer mouse.
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Chord 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 " c ...
, a computer device allowing for input based on pressing multiple keys simultaneously
See also
* Animal taxonomy
chordate
A chordate ( ) is a bilaterian animal belonging to the phylum Chordata ( ). All chordates possess, at some point during their larval or adult stages, five distinctive physical characteristics ( synapomorphies) that distinguish them from ot ...
(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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