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Chordata :: Chordata (n. pl.) A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord..

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..

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

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

Manichordon :: Manichordon () The clavichord or clarichord; -- called also dumb spinet.

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

Heptachord :: Heptachord (n.) A system of seven sounds.

Harpsichord :: Harpsichord (n.) A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano..

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

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..

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.

Cadence :: Cadence (n.) The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord..

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..

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

Chord :: Chord (n.) The string of a musical instrument.

Chord :: Chord (v. i.) To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that..

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

Subtepid :: Subtense (a.) A line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; as, the subtense of an arc..

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

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

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