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• 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

Chord may also refer to: A chord of a curve is a geometric line segment whose endpoints both lie on the curve. ... A cycle (black) with two chords (green). ... Fingering for a first position C major chord on a guitar. ... Cross section of an airfoil showing chord In reference to aircraft, chord refers to the distance between the front and back of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow. ... The Chord project aims to build scalable, symmetric and robust distributed systems using peer-to-peer ideas. ... This definition has not been created yet! A chord is a concurrency construct available in Polyphonic C♯ and Cω inspired by the join pattern of the Join Calculus. ...

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

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