Chord

Chord may refer to:

• Chord (music), an aggregate of musical pitches sounded simultaneously.
  • Chord (guitar) an aggregate of musical pitches played simultaneously on a guitar
• Chord (geometry), a line segment joining two points on a curve
• Chord (astronomy), 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, 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 (peer-to-peer), a peer-to-peer protocol and algorithm for distributed hash tables (DHT)
• Chord (concurrency), 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), free software useful for creating staffless lead sheets
• Chord Overstreet, American actor and musician

Chord may also refer to:

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

The Chords may refer to:

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

Chords may refer to:

• Chords (artist), a Swedish hiphop/reggae artist

See also

• Animal taxonomy chordate (chordata) and eponymous notochord
• All pages beginning with "Chord"
• All pages with titles containing "Chord"
• Cord (disambiguation)