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

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..

Prochordal :: Prochordal (a.) Situated in front of the notochord; -- applied especially to parts of the cartilaginous rudiments in the base of the skull.

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

Cembalo :: Cembalo (n.) An old name for 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..

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

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

Toccata :: Toccata (n.) An old form of piece for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the prelude, fantasia, or capriccio..

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

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

Manichord :: Manichord () Alt. of Manichordo.

Discord :: Discord (v. i.) Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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