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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
  • 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:

The Chords may refer to:

  • The Chords, 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)
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