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

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

Rheochord :: Rheochord (n.) A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit..

Urochord :: Urochord (n.) The central axis or cord in the tail of larval ascidians and of certain adult tunicates.

Chord :: Chord (n.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.

Decachord :: Decachord (n.) Alt. of Decachordo.

Octochord :: Octochord (n.) See Octachord.

Chording :: Chording (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chor.

Heptachord :: Heptachord (n.) A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones.

Concord :: Concord (n.) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.

Hexachord :: Hexachord (n.) A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones..

Urocord :: Urocord (n.) See Urochord.

Heptachord :: Heptachord (n.) A lyre with seven chords.

Triad :: Triad (n.) The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave..

Ninth :: Ninth (n.) A chord of the dominant seventh with the ninth added.

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..

Preparation :: Preparation (n.) The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock. See Suspension..

Relative :: Relative (a.) Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other..

Parachordal :: Parachordal (a.) Situated on either side of the notochord; -- applied especially to the cartilaginous rudiments of the skull on each side of the anterior part of the notochord.

Vertebrata :: Vertebrata (n. pl.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, comprising all animals that have a backbone composed of bony or cartilaginous vertebrae, together with Amphioxus in which the backbone is represented by a simple undivided notochord. The Vertebrata always have a dorsal, or neural, cavity above the notochord or backbone, and a ventral, or visceral, cavity below it. The subdivisions or classes of Vertebrata are Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, Pisces, Marsipobranchia, and Lep

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