• Chord (music)
  Chord (music)
  A chord in music is any harmonic set of two–three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously. These need not actually be played together: arpeggios and broken chords may for many practical and theoretical purposes be understood as chords...
  
  , an aggregate of musical pitches sounded simultaneously.
  • Chord (guitar)
    Guitar chord
    In music, a guitar chord is a chord, or collection of tones usually sounded together at once, played on a guitar. It can be composed of notes played on adjacent or separate strings or all the strings together...
    
     an aggregate of musical pitches played simultaneously on a guitar
• Chord (geometry)
  Chord (geometry)
  A chord of a circle is a geometric line segment whose endpoints both lie on the circumference of the circle.A secant or a secant line is the line extension of a chord. More generally, a chord is a line segment joining two points on any curve, such as but not limited to an ellipse...
  
  , a line segment joining two points on a curve
• Chord (astronomy)
  Chord (astronomy)
  In the field of astronomy the term chord typically refers to a line crossing an object which is formed during an occultation event. By taking accurate measurements of the start and end times of the event, in conjunction with the known location of the observer and the object's orbit, the length of...
  
  , 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
  Truss
  In architecture and structural engineering, a truss is a structure comprising one or more triangular units constructed with straight members whose ends are connected at joints referred to as nodes. External forces and reactions to those forces are considered to act only at the nodes and result in...
  
  , as opposed to the inner "webbed members"
• Chord (aircraft)
  Chord (aircraft)
  In aeronautics, chord refers to the imaginary straight line joining the trailing edge and the center of curvature of the leading edge of the cross-section of an airfoil...
  
  , 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)
  Chord (concurrency)
  A chord is a concurrency construct available in Polyphonic C♯ and Cω inspired by the join pattern of the join-calculus.- Synchronicity :Cω defines two types of functions synchronous and asynchronous...
  
  , 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 (software)
  Chord (software)
  Chord is software for creating staffless lead sheets in PostScript format.Chord was developed by Martin Leclerc and Mario Dorion. This project has been inactive for several years...
  
  , free software useful for creating staffless lead sheets
• Chord Overstreet
  Chord Overstreet
  Chord Overstreet is an American actor, singer and musician, best known for his role as Sam Evans on the television series Glee.-Early life:...
  
  , American actor and musician

• Mouse chording
  Mouse chording
  Mouse chording is the capability of performing actions when multiple mouse buttons are held down, much like a chorded keyboard. Like mouse gestures, chorded actions may lack feedback and affordance and would therefore offer no way for users to discover possible chords without reference...
  
   or a chorded keyboard
  Chorded keyboard
  A keyset or chorded keyboard is a computer input device that allows the user to enter characters or commands formed by pressing several keys together, like playing a "chord" on a piano...
  
  , where multiple buttons are held down simultaneously to produce a specific action

• The Chords
  The Chords
  The Chords are a 1970s British pop music group, commonly associated with the 1970s mod revival, who had several hits in their homeland, before the decline of the trend brought about their break-up...
  
  , 1970s British mod revival band
• The Chords (U.S.), 1950s American doo wop group

• Chords (artist)
  Chords (artist)
  Chords, , born 12 August 1978, in Lund, is a Swedish musician. He is currently signed to Timbuktu's label JuJu Records, together with J-Ro of The Alkaholiks among others...
  
  , a Swedish hiphop/reggae artist

See also

• Animal taxonomy chordate
  Chordate
  Chordates are animals which are either vertebrates or one of several closely related invertebrates. They are united by having, for at least some period of their life cycle, a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail...
  
   (chordata) and eponymous notochord
  Notochord
  The notochord is a flexible, rod-shaped body found in embryos of all chordates. It is composed of cells derived from the mesoderm and defines the primitive axis of the embryo. In some chordates, it persists throughout life as the main axial support of the body, while in most vertebrates it becomes...
  
  
• Cord (disambiguation)