Editing Chord

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'''Chord''' or '''chords''' may refer to:
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== Art and music ==
* [[Chord (music)]], an aggregate of musical pitches sounded simultaneously
** [[Guitar chord]], a chord played on a guitar, which has a particular tuning 
* [[The Chords (British band)]], 1970s British mod revival band
* [[The Chords (American band)]], 1950s American doo-wop group
* [[The Chord (painting)|''The Chord'' (painting)]], a c.1715 painting by Antoine Watteau
* [[Andrew Chord]], a comic book character who is the former mentor of the New Warriors

== Mathematics ==
* [[Chord (geometry)]], a line segment joining two points on a curve
* [[Chord (graph theory)]], an edge joining two nonadjacent nodes in a cycle

== People ==
* [[Chord Overstreet]], American actor and musician
* [[Chords (musician)]], a Swedish hiphop/reggae artist

== Programming ==
* [[Chord (concurrency)]], a concurrency construct in some object-oriented programming languages
* [[Chord (peer-to-peer)]], a peer-to-peer protocol and algorithm for distributed hash tables (DHT)

== Science and technology ==
* [[Chord (astronomy)]], a line crossing a foreground astronomical object during an occultation which gives an indication of the object's size and/or shape
* [[Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector]] (CHORD), a proposed successor to the [[Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment|CHIME radio telescope]]<!--https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01777, 1911.02108, 1910.02889  Seems article-worthy as success of CHIME makes funding likelier; will use ideas from [[HIRAX]]-->
* [[Chord (aeronautics)]], 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 in [[truss]] construction – an outside member of a truss, as opposed to the inner "webbed members"
* In British railway terminology, a [[Glossary of United Kingdom railway terms#C|chord]] can refer to a short curve of track connecting two otherwise unconnected railway lines. 
*[[Mouse chording]], the capability to perform an action when holding multiple buttons on a computer mouse.
*[[Chord keyboard]], a computer device allowing for input based on pressing multiple keys simultaneously

== See also ==
* Animal taxonomy [[chordate]] (chordata) and eponymous [[notochord]]
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* [[Cord (disambiguation)]]

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