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Sector :: Sector (n.) A mathematical instrument, consisting of two rulers connected at one end by a joint, each arm marked with several scales, as of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, etc., one scale of each kind on each arm, and all on lines radiating from the common center of motion. The sector is used for plotting, etc., to any scale..

Generator :: Generator (n.) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- called also generating tone.

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

Somatopleure :: Somatopleure (n.) The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchnopleure..

Decachordon :: Decachordon (n.) Something consisting of ten parts.

Figure :: Figure (n.) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords..

Wolf :: Wolf (a.) The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament..

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

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

Clarichord :: Clarichord (n.) A musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet; -- called also manichord and clavichord..

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..

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

Thorough Bass :: Thorough bass () The representation of chords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; -- sometimes used as synonymous with harmony.

Octachord :: Octachord (n.) An instrument of eight strings; a system of eight tones.

Clavecin :: Clavecin (n.) The harpsichord.

Disjunctive :: Disjunctive (a.) Pertaining to disjunct tetrachords.

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

Notochordal :: Notochordal (a.) Of or pertaining to the notochord; having a notochord.

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..

Segment :: Segment (n.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration..

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