Usually means: Group of notes played together.
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We found 56 dictionaries that define the word chord:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. chord: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. chord, chord: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chord, chord: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chord: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chord: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chord, chord, chord: Wordnik
  7. chord: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. chord: Wiktionary
  9. chord: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chord: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chord: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. chord, chord-: Dictionary.com
  13. chord (1), chord (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. chord: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Chord (DHT), Chord (aeronautics), Chord (aircraft), Chord (astronomy), Chord (concurrency), Chord (disambiguation), Chord (geometry), Chord (graph theory), Chord (math), Chord (music), Chord (peer-to-peer), Chord (trigonometry), Chord, The Chord (painting): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Chord: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. chord: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. chord: Rhymezone
  19. Chord: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. chord: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. chord: Free Dictionary
  22. chord: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. chord: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. chord: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. chord: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. chord-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  5. SimplyTheBest Music Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chord: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. chord: Sound Alike Words
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. chord, chord-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. CHORD: Acronym Finder
  3. chord: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Chord: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. chord: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  5. chord: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. chord: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. chord: The Folk File
  3. chord: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chord: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Explosives (No longer online)
  2. Bridge Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  6. Chord: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See chorded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
noun:  (geometry) A line segment between two points of a curve.
noun:  (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
noun:  (rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
noun:  (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
noun:  (nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
noun:  (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
noun:  The string of a musical instrument.
noun:  (anatomy) A cord.
noun:  (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
verb:  (transitive) To write chords for.
verb:  (music) To accord; to harmonize together.
verb:  (transitive) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.

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