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A kind of seaweed (Chorda Filum) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long.
The representation of chords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; -- sometimes used as synonymous with harmony.
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n.
A mathematical instrument, consisting of two rulers connected at one end by a joint, each arm marked with several scales, as of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, etc., one scale of each kind on each arm, and all on lines radiating from the common center of motion. The sector is used for plotting, etc., to any scale.
n.
A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration.
a.
The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.
n.
A chord of three notes.
v. i.
To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.
n.
A chord which includes the interval of a seventh whether major, minor, or diminished.
imp. & p. p.
of Chord
a.
Trembling; -- used as a direction to perform a passage with a general shaking of the whole chord.
v. t.
To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
n.
Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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a.
Of or pertaining to a chord.
n.
An old solfeggio name for B flat; the seventh harmonic, as heard in the or aeolian string; -- so called by Tartini. It was long considered a false, but is the true note of the chord of the flat seventh.
n.
The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
n.
The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave.
n.
A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.
n.
The principle of key in music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, or tonic, of the whole.
n.
The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; -- so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string.
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