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noun

Chord n.

The string of a musical instrument.

(Mus.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.

(Geom.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.

(Anat.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4.

(Engin.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension.

Accidental chords, Common chords, and Vocal chords. See under Accidental, Common, and Vocal.

Chord of curvature, a chord drawn from any point of a curve, in the circle of curvature for that point.

Scale of chords. See Scale.

verb

Chord v. t. (past & past part. chorded; pres. part. chording) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune. "When Jubal struck the chorded shell." "Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp."

Chord v. i. (Mus.) To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.

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Etymology of 'Chord'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... to drift is therefore the same as that of the cosine to the sine of the angle of incidence. But in curved surfaces a very remarkable situation is found. The pressure, instead of being uniformly normal to the chord of the arc, is usually inclined considerably in front of the perpendicular. The result is that the lift is greater and the drift less than if the pressure were normal. While our measurements differ considerably from those of Lilienthal, Lilienthal was the first to discover this exceedingly important ...

— The Early History of the Airplane • Orville Wright

... first and only time, as he said those words, the stranger struck a chord that was familiar to Philip. "Oh, of course," the Civil Servant answered, with brisk acquiescence, "if you want to be really up to date in your dress, you must go to first-rate houses in London for everything. Nobody anywhere can cut like ...

— The British Barbarians • Grant Allen

... the end and top of it, some seven feet above the earth floor. Even had I been able to wrench away the bars, it would have availed me nothing, since the aperture formed the segment of a circle whose chord was but a very few inches long. I had nevertheless a fancy for seeing the stars once more and feeling the breath of heaven upon my bandaged temples, which impelled me to search for that which should add a cubit to my stature. And at a glance I descried ...

— Dead Men Tell No Tales • E. W. Hornung

... evenings, or toiling with their nets ashore after a sleepless night, made a living picture which stamped itself deeply on his receptive mind. A man of the people himself, born to toil and inured to it from babyhood, this constant scene of toiling and struggling humanity touched the deepest chord in his whole nature, so that some of the most beautiful and noble of his early pictures are really reminiscences of his first student days at Cherbourg. But after he had spent a year in Mouchel's studio, sad news came to him from ...

— Biographies of Working Men • Grant Allen

... help!" he yelled at his comrades; but they only stood staring, while the foremost sailors passed on so as to block the way of escape, and the next instant the offender was hemmed in by a half circle of pursuers, who formed an arc, the chord being the edge of the pier, beneath which was the ...

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