CHORD

'Chord' may mean:

★ Chord (music), an aggregate of musical pitches sounded simultaneously

★ Chord (guitar) an aggregate of musical pitches sounded simultaneously played on a guitar

★ 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 (DHT), a distributed hash table protocol

★ 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 (structural system), the member that is perpendicular to the shear wall that is used to resist bending of the diaphragm

★ Chord (software), free software useful for creating stafless lead sheets
'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