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 whic ...

, an aggregate of musical pitches sounded simultaneously ** Guitar chord 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 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) In computing, Chord is a protocol and algorithm for a peer-to-peer distributed hash table. A distributed hash table stores key-value pairs by assigning keys to different computers (known as "nodes"); a node will store the values for all the keys ...

, 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. A chord is a function body that is associated with multiple function headers and cannot execute until all function headers ...

, 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 20 ...

, 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 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 Oper ...

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 " c ...

, 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), a Swedish hiphop/reggae artist

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