Chord
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- In music theory, a chord is three or more pitches sounded simultaneously.
- In reference to aircraft, chord refers to the distance between the front and back of a wing, referred to as the leading and trailing edges, measured in the direction of the normal airflow. The term chord was selected due to the curved nature of the wings surface.
- Chord is a distributed hash table.
- In computing, a chord could refer to mouse chording or a chorded keyboard, where multiple buttons are held down to produce a specific action or to type a character.
- In computer science, a chord is a concurrency construct in object-oriented programming languages.