Chord
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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 (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), a peer-to-peer protocol and algorithm for distributed hash tables (DHT)
- Chord (concurrency), a concurrency construct in some object-oriented programming languages
- In British railway terminology, a 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, 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 or a chorded keyboard, 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
See also
- Animal taxonomy chordate (chordata) and eponymous notochord
- All pages with titles beginning with Chord
- All pages with titles containing Chord
- Cord (disambiguation)