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Triad :: Triad (n.) A chord of three notes.

Flugel :: Flugel (n.) A grand piano or a harpsichord, both being wing-shaped..

Essential :: Essential (a.) Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones..

Arpeggio :: Arpeggio (n.) The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played..

Subtense :: Subtend (v. t.) To extend under, or be opposed to; as, the line of a triangle which subtends the right angle; the chord subtends an arc..

Neurochord :: Neurochord (a.) Alt. of Neurochorda.

Octochord :: Octochord (n.) See Octachord.

Hip :: Hip (n.) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord..

Parachordal :: Parachordal (n.) A parachordal cartilage.

Tetrachord :: Tetrachord (n.) A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable..

Polychord :: Polychord (n.) A musical instrument of ten strings.

Sagitta :: Sagitta (n.) The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; -- so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string..

Harmonometer :: Harmonometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds. It is often a monochord furnished with movable bridges.

Harmony :: Harmony (n.) A succession of chords according to the rules of progression and modulation.

Decachordon :: Decachordon (n.) An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp..

Diphycercal :: Diphycercal (a.) Having the tail fin divided into two equal parts by the notochord, or end of the vertebral column; protocercal. See Protocercal..

Splanchno-skeleton :: Splanchnopleure (n.) The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure..

Consonant :: Consonant (a.) harmonizing together; accordant; as, consonant tones, consonant chords..

Trichord :: Trichord (n.) An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings..

Cephalostyle :: Cephalostyle (n.) The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.

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