Dictionary Definition
chord
Noun
1 a straight line connecting two points on a
curve
2 a combination of three or more notes that blend
harmoniously when sounded together
Verb
1 play chords on (a string instrument)
2 bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while
making music or singing [syn: harmonize, harmonise]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From Latin chorda (cord), < (Doric) χορδά (khorda), Ionic χορδή (khorde) "string of gut, the string of a lyre"Pronunciation
- Homonyms: cord
Noun
- In the context of "music": In music, a combination of any three or more pitches and the diatonic functionality of those pitches.
- A straight line between two points of a curve.
- In the context of "engineering": A horizontal member of a truss.
- In the context of "aeronautics": The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
Derived terms
Translations
combination of three or more pitches
- Albanian: akord
- Arabic: وتر, ائتلاف نغمات
- Azeri: bağ
- Bosnian: akord
- Bulgarian: корда (korda)
- Chinese: 弦
- Croatian: akord
- Czech: akord
- Danish: akkord
- Dutch: akkoord
- Esperanto: kordo
- Estonian: akord
- Finnish: sointu
- French: accord
- Galician: acorde
- German: Akkord
- Greek: χορδή (chordē)
- Hebrew: אקורד (aqord)
- Hungarian: akkord
- Indonesian: kor
- Irish: corda
- Italian: accordo
- Japanese: 和音 (わおん) (waon)
- Korean: 화음 (hwa-eum)
- Latvian: stīga
- Lithuanian: balso stygos
- Norwegian: akkord
- Persian: وتر
- Polish: akord
- Portuguese: corda
- Romanian: coardă
- Russian: аккорд (akkord)''
- Slovak: akord
- Slovene: akord
- Spanish: acorde
- Swedish: ackord
- Turkish: akor
- Uyghur: akkord
- Vietnamese: dây
- Welsh: cord
- Yiddish: אַקאָרד (akord)
straight line
- Dutch: koorde
- Finnish: jänne
horizontal member of a truss
- Finnish: jänne
distance of a wing's leading and trailing edges
- Finnish: jänne
See also
Extensive Definition
Chord may mean:
- Chord (music), an aggregate of musical pitches sounded simultaneously
- Chord (guitar) an aggregate of musical pitches played simultaneously on a guitar
- Chord (geometry), a line segment joining two points on a curve
- 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 (aircraft), 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 (DHT), a distributed hash table protocol
- 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 (structural system), the member that is perpendicular to the shear wall that is used to resist bending of the diaphragm (structural system)
- Chord (software), free software useful for creating stafless lead sheets
Chord may also refer to:
- Mouse chording or a chorded keyboard, where multiple buttons are held down simultaneously to produce a specific action
The Chords may refer to:
- The Chords, 1970s British mod revival band
- The Chords (U.S.), 1950s American doo wop group
chord in Danish: Akkord
chord in German: Chorda
chord in Modern Greek (1453-): Χορδή
chord in Irish: Corda
chord in Italian: Accordo
chord in Japanese: 弦
chord in Norwegian: Akkord
chord in Thai: คอร์ด
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accompany, accord, air line, arpeggio, assonate, atone, attune, axis, be harmonious, be in tune,
beeline, blend, broken chord, caring, catgut, chime, common chord, concento, concern, concertize, concord, consonant chord,
diagonal, diameter, diminished seventh
chord, direct line, directrix, do, dominant chord, echo, edge, empathy, enharmonic, execute, fellow feeling,
fiddlestring,
great-circle course, harmonize, horsehair, identification, interpret, involvement, major triad,
make music, melodize,
minor chord, musicalize, normal, nylon string, pathos, perform, perpendicular, play, play by ear, put in tune,
radius, radius vector,
relating, render, response, responsiveness, right
line, secant, segment, seventh chord, sharing, shortcut, side, sixth chord, sound in tune,
sound together, steel string, straight, straight course,
straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, streamline, string, sympathetic chord,
sympathetic response, sympathy, symphonize, synchronize, tangent, tone down, tone up,
tonic triad, transversal, triad, tune, tune up, unbroken chord,
vector, vibes, vibrations, voice, wound
string