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

Chord :: Chord (v. t.) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.

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

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

Leptocardia :: Leptocardia (n. pl.) The lowest class of Vertebrata, including only the Amphioxus. The heart is represented only by a simple pulsating vessel. The blood is colorless; the brain, renal organs, and limbs are wanting, and the backbone is represented only by a simple, unsegmented notochord. See Amphioxus..

Neurochordal :: Neurochordal (a.) See Neurocord.

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

Derivative :: Derivative (n.) A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an actual chord..

Chord :: Chord (n.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension..

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.

Chord :: Chord (n.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4..

Diameter :: Diameter (n.) Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve..

Protovertebra :: Protovertebra (n.) One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite. See Illust. of Ectoderm..

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

Polychord :: Polychord (a.) Having many strings.

Octochord :: Octochord (n.) See Octachord.

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

Chorded :: Chorded (imp. & p. p.) of Chor.

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

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..

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