chord

IPA: kˈɔrd

(music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
(geometry) A line segment 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.

Examples of "chord" in Sentences

Musical group Steel Train plays one chord from a song.
She changed tempo and what she called the chord variations.
Needless to say, certain chord changes, tempi and melodies are destined to do the job.
That subdominant-over-dominant IV-over-V sound (in chord symbols, either G11 (add9) or F/G) is one of the touchstones of gospel.
So, when a chord is struck, a skilful ear may distinguish one or many series of consonances, of which the number is as yet imperfectly known.
He is good on paramusical minutiae – record contracts, PR, style subcultures – but shaky on music itself calling a chord progression a "march tempo".
While sound achieves an end-rhyme at line 40, "the clear universe of things around," the formal chord is already belated in the train of the triple chord of sound in the commotion of 30-34 about the phenomenon itself.