(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 chording

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.

(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.

simple past tense and past participle of chord

present participle of chord

plural of chord

(music) Any musical chord which has a minor third, as opposed to a major third, above its root, especially a minor triad.

(music) A chord whose notes are played in sequential descending or ascending order