(music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously. / (geometry) A straight line between two points of a curve. / (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.

(transitive) To write chords for. / (music) To accord; to harmonize together. / (transitive) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.

plural of chord

present participle of chord

An arrangement of musical chords. / (computing) The ability, using a keyboard or similar device, to enter characters or commands in the form of "chords" by pressing several keys simultaneously.

simple past tense and past participle of chord

(computing, of a computer keyboard) Through which input is supplied by pressing a relatively small number of keys in combinations, as though playing chords. / (graph theory) Containing a chord.

plural of chording

(music) Any musical chord which has the tones a major third (as opposed to a minor third) and a perfect fifth above its root, i.e. the notes of a major triad, but possibly containing other intervals, such as a seventh or ninth.

(music, idiomatic) A chord or combination of notes used in rock music and typically selected to sound good at high volume and high levels of distortion. Power chords make extensive use of intervals such as open fourths and fifths.