Chord

Chord or chords may refer to:

Art and music

 * Chord (music), an aggregate of musical pitches sounded simultaneously
 * Guitar chord, a chord played on a guitar, which has a particular tuning
 * The Chords (British band), 1970s British mod revival band
 * The Chords (American band), 1950s American doo-wop group
 * The Chord (painting), a c.1715 painting by Antoine Watteau
 * Andrew Chord, a comic book character who is the former mentor of the New Warriors

Mathematics

 * Chord (geometry), a line segment joining two points on a curve
 * Chord (graph theory), an edge joining two nonadjacent nodes in a cycle

People

 * Chord Overstreet, American actor and musician
 * Chords (musician), a Swedish hiphop/reggae artist

Programming

 * Chord (concurrency), a concurrency construct in some object-oriented programming languages
 * Chord (peer-to-peer), a peer-to-peer protocol and algorithm for distributed hash tables (DHT)

Science and technology

 * Chord (astronomy), a line crossing a foreground astronomical object during an occultation which gives an indication of the object's size and/or shape
 * Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector (CHORD), a proposed successor to the CHIME radio telescope
 * Chord (aeronautics), 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 in truss construction – an outside member of a truss, as opposed to the inner "webbed members"
 * In British railway terminology, a chord can refer to a short curve of track connecting two otherwise unconnected railway lines.
 * Mouse chording, the capability to perform an action when holding multiple buttons on a computer mouse.
 * Chord keyboard, a computer device allowing for input based on pressing multiple keys simultaneously