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  • 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.
  • In computer science, a chord is a concurrency construct in object-oriented programming languages.