chord

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English

Etymology

From Latin chorda (“cord”), from Ancient Greek (Doric) χορδά (khorda), (Ionic) χορδή (khordē, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /kɔː(ɹ)d/, SAMPA: /kO:(r\)d/
• (US) IPA: /kɔɹd/, SAMPA: /kOr\d/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: cord

Noun

chord (plural chords)

1. (music) In music, a combination of any three or more notes sounded simultaneously.
2. (geometry) A straight line between two points of a curve.
3. (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
4. (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
5. (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
   • 2005, James Avery, Visual Studio hacks (page 99)

     Ctrl-K is the default first key for chords, but you can create chords using any keys that you want.

Derived terms

• mixed-interval chord
• strike a chord, touch a chord

Translations

combination of three or more notes

Albanian: akord (sq) Arabic: وتر (ar) (wátar) m., ائتلاف نغمات (ar) (i'tilaaf naghamaat) m. Azeri: bağ Bosnian: akord (bs) m. Bulgarian: акорд (bg) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 和音 (cmn) (héyīn), 弦 (cmn) (xián) Croatian: akord (hr) m. Czech: akord (cs) m. Danish: akkord (da) Dutch: akkoord (nl) n. Esperanto: kordo (eo) Estonian: akord (et) Finnish: sointu (fi) French: accord (fr) Galician: acorde German: Akkord (de) Greek: ακόρντο (el) n., συγχορδία (el) f. Hebrew: אקורד (he) (aqord) m. Hungarian: akkord (hu) Indonesian: kor (id) Irish: corda (ga)

Italian: accordo Japanese: 和音 (ja) (わおん, waon) Korean: 화음 (ko) (hwa-eum) (和音 (ko)) Latvian: stīga Lithuanian: balso stygos Norwegian: akkord (no), note (no), noter (no) Persian: وتر (fa) Polish: akord (pl) Portuguese: acorde (pt) Romanian: acord (ro) Russian: аккорд (ru) (akkórd) m. Serbian: akord (sr) Slovak: akord (sk) Slovene: akord (sl) m. Spanish: acorde (es) Swedish: ackord (sv) Thai: คอร์ด (th) (khòt) Turkish: akor (tr) Uyghur: akkord Vietnamese: dây (vi) Welsh: cord (cy) Yiddish: אַקאָרד (yi) (akord) m.

straight line

Bengali: জ্যা (bn) Bulgarian: хорда (bg) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 直線 (cmn), 直线 (cmn) (zhíxiàn) Czech: tětiva (cs) f. Dutch: koorde f. Finnish: jänne (fi)

Greek: χορδή (el) f. Japanese: 直線 (ja) (ちょくせん, chokusen) Portuguese: corda (pt) f. Romanian: coardă (ro) f. Russian: хорда (ru) (xórda) f. Spanish: cuerda (es) f.

horizontal member of a truss

Finnish: jänne (fi)

distance of a wing's leading and trailing edges

Finnish: jänne (fi)

See also

• simultaneity

Verb

chord (third-person singular simple present chords, present participle chording, simple past and past participle chorded)

1. (transitive) To write chords for.
   • 2003, Dan Levenson, Clawhammer Banjo from Scratch

     This chording technique works well for learning any tune, but this is the only tune of the set that I will write out completely as a chorded version.