Chime or chimes may refer to:

Places

Chimes, Arkansas Chimes is an unincorporated community in Van Buren County, Arkansas Van Buren County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 17,295. The county seat is Clinton. The county was formed on No ...

, a community in the United States

People

Terry Chimes Terence Chimes (born 5 July 1956, Stepney, London, England) is an English musician, best known as the original drummer of punk rock group The Clash. He played with them from July 1976 to November 1976, January 1977 to April 1977, and again fro ...

(born 1956), English musician *

Chime Rinpoche Lama Chime Tulku Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist, Tulku and Dharma teacher. Chime Rinpoche was born in 1941 in Kham, Tibet. In 1959, due to the annexation of Tibet, he was forced to flee to India via Bhutan into exile. Gaining British citizen ...

(born 1941), Tibetan Buddhist Lama and Tulku * Chime Tulku (born 1991), Buddhist Tulku * Chime (DJ), English DJ and music producer

Acronyms

Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is an interferometric radio telescope at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in British Columbia, Canada which consists of four antennas consisting of 100 x 20 metre cylindrical ...

, a radio telescope *

College of Healthcare Information Management Executives The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is a professional organization for chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders. CHIME enables its members and business partners to collaborate; exchange ide ...

, the professional organization for chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders * Zunich–Kaye syndrome, also known as CHIME syndrome, a rare combination of congenital birth defects

Arts, entertainment, and media

Musical instrument or tone

Chime (bell instrument) A chime () or set of chimes is a carillon-like instrument, i.e. a pitched percussion idiophone consisting of 22 or fewer cast bronze bells. Chimes are primarily played with a keyboard, but can also be played with an Ellacombe apparatus. Chimes ...

, an array of large bells, typically housed in a tower and played from a keyboard * Chimes, the sounds produced by a

striking clock A striking clock is a clock that sounds the hours audibly on a bell or gong. In 12-hour striking, used most commonly in striking clocks today, the clock strikes once at 1:00 am, twice at 2:00 am, continuing in this way up to twelve time ...

to announce the hours *

Bar chimes A mark tree (also known as a nail tree, chime tree, or set of bar chimes) is a percussion instrument used primarily for musical colour. It consists of many small chimes—typically cylinders of solid aluminium or hollow brass tubing 3/8" in di ...

(also known as "mark tree"), a series of many small chimes of decreasing length, arranged horizontally *

Chime bar A chime bar or resonator bell is a percussion instrument consisting of a tuned metal bar similar to a glockenspiel bar, with each bar mounted on its own wooden resonator. Chime bars are played with mallets again similar to a glockenspiel. The ...

s, individual instruments similar to glockenspiel bars but with resonators *

Macintosh startup The classic Macintosh startup sequence includes hardware tests which may trigger the startup chime, Happy Mac, Sad Mac, and Chimes of Death. On Macs running macOS Big Sur or later the startup sound is enabled by default, but can be disabled by ...

chime, the sound a Macintosh computer makes on startup *

Tubular bell Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family. Their sound resembles that of church bells, carillon, or a bell tower; the original tubular bells were made to duplicate the sound of church bells within a ...

, or chimes, a percussion instrument struck with hammers *

Warning chime An alarm device is a mechanism that gives an audible, visual or other kind of alarm signal to alert someone to a problem or condition that requires urgent attention. Alphabetical musical instruments Etymology The word ''alarm'' comes from the ...

, a sound used in machinery or computers to alert users of a dangerous condition, error, completion of a process, etc. *

Wind chime Wind chimes are a type of percussion instrument constructed from suspended tubes, rods, bells or other objects that are often made of metal or wood. The tubes or rods are suspended along with some type of weight or surface which the tubes or rods ...

or Aeolian chime, suspended bells sounded when blown together by the wind *

Handchime Handchimes are musical instruments which are rung by hand, similar to handbells. Typically, they are tuned square tubes with an external clapper mechanism. Many handbell techniques can also be applied to handchimes, though some are more difficult ...

s, an instrument that is rung by hand, similar to handbells.

Music

Albums

* ''Chime'' (Yuki Saito album), 1986 * ''Chime'' (Dessa album), 2018 * '' Chimes EP'', 2014 EP by Hudson Mohawke

Songs

* "Chime" (song), a 1989 single release by Orbital * "Chimes" (song), a 2014 single release by Hudson Mohawke

Other music

* ''Chimes'' (Gavrilin), a Russian-language choral work by Valery Gavrilin that premiered in 1984

Other arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Chime'' (novel), a 2011 young adult novel by Franny Billingsley * ''Chime'' (video game), released in 2010 * Chimes, a magical force that paradoxically destroys magic in the novel ''

Soul of the Fire ''Soul of the Fire'' is the fifth book in Terry Goodkind's epic fantasy series ''The Sword of Truth.'' Plot introduction Richard and Kahlan are finally married and are enjoying their wedding night back in the Spirit house in the Village of the Mu ...

'' by Terry Goodkind

Other uses

Chime (company) Chime Financial, Inc. is an American financial technology company which provides fee-free mobile banking services that are provided by The Bancorp Bank or Stride Bank, N.A. Account-holders are issued Visa debit cards or credit cards and have ac ...

, an American financial technology company * Chime, the rim of a

barrel A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is wide. They are traditionally made of wooden staves and bound by wooden or metal hoops. The word vat is often used for large containers for liquids, ...

, one at each end * Amazon Chime, an enterprise collaboration service from

Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Amazon that provides Software as a service, on-demand cloud computing computing platform, platforms and Application programming interface, APIs to individuals, companies, and gover ...

MDL Chime MDL ''Chime'' was a free plugin used by web browsers to display the three-dimensional structures of molecules. and was based on the RasMol code. Chime was used by a wide range of biochemistry web sites for the visualization of macromolecules, ...

, a plugin used by web browsers to display the 3D structure of molecules