Chord

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Chord may mean:

• Chord (music), an aggregate of musical pitches sounded simultaneously
• Chord (geometry), a line segment joining two points on a curve
• 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 (computing), a distributed hash table protocol
• Chord (computing), a concurrency construct in some object-oriented programming languages
• Chord. Comic book character. 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

Chord may also refer to:

• Mouse chording or a chorded keyboard, where multiple buttons are held down simultaneously to produce a specific action

Chords may refer to:

• The Chords, 1970s British mod revival band
• The Chords (U.S.), 1950s American doo wop group