Chord

From Freepedia

Chord may mean:

• Chord (geometry), a line segment joining two points on a curve
• Chord (music), three or more pitches sounded simultaneously
• 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:

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