Chord

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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 (astronomy), a line crossing a foreground astronomical object during an occultation which gives an indication of the objects size and/or shape
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 (ornithology), the measurement of a birds bended wing from the tip of the longest primary feather to the farthest measurable point at the bend of the wrist.
Chord (peer-to-peer), a peer-to-peer protocol and alogrithm for distributed hash tables (DHT)
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:

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