Chord
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Chord may mean:
- 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 (music), an aggregate of musical pitches sounded simultaneously
- Chord (truss construction), an outside member of a truss, as opposed to the inner "webbed members"
- Chord (aviation), 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
- Mouse chording or a chorded keyboard, where multiple buttons are held down simultaneously to produce a specific action
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