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

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

Urochorda :: Urochorda (n. pl.) Same as Tunicata.

Clavecin :: Clavecin (n.) The harpsichord.

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..

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

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.

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

Perichordal :: Perichordal (a.) Around the notochord; as, a perichordal column. See Epichordal..

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..

Pentachord :: Pentachord (n.) An ancient instrument of music with five strings.

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

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..

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

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..

Epichordal :: Epichordal (a.) Upon or above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguished from a perichordal column, which develops around it..

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

Chordee :: Chordee (n.) A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea..

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

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