different between chord vs chordal
chord
English
Alternative forms
- (music): cord (dated)
Etymology
Variant of cord, with spelling alteration due to Latin chorda (“cord”), ultimately from Ancient Greek (Doric) ????? (khordá), (Ionic) ????? (khord?, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /k??(?)d/
- (US) enPR: kôrd, IPA(key): /k??d/
- Homophones: cord, cored (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Noun
chord (plural chords)
- (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
- (geometry) A straight line between two points of a curve.
- (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
- (rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
- (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
- (nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
- (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
- The string of a musical instrument.
- (anatomy) A cord.
- (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
Derived terms
- mixed-interval chord
- strike a chord, touch a chord
- glasschord
Translations
Verb
chord (third-person singular simple present chords, present participle chording, simple past and past participle chorded)
- (transitive) To write chords for.
- (music) To accord; to harmonize together.
- This note chords with that one.
- (transitive) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
- 1687, John Dryden, A Song for Cecilia's Day
- When Jubal struck the chorded shell.
- 1862, Henry Ward Beecher, Eyes and Ears
- Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp.
- 1687, John Dryden, A Song for Cecilia's Day
Translations
See also
- simultaneity
chord From the web:
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- what chords are in the key of d
- what chords are in the key of a
chordal
English
Etymology
chord +? -al
Adjective
chordal (not comparable)
- (mathematics, music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of chords.
- (music) Having an accompaniment of chords rather than a countermelody.
- (zoology) Having a notochord; chordate
- (graph theory) For a graph, in which all cycles of four or more vertices have a chord.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- dorlach
chordal From the web:
- chordal meaning
- what is chordal in music
- what is chordal sam
- what is chordal action in chain drive
- what is chordal harmony
- what is chordal accompaniment
- what does chordal mean in music
- what is chordal homophony
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