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

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

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

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

Polychord :: Polychord (n.) A musical instrument of ten strings.

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..

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.

Clavecin :: Clavecin (n.) The harpsichord.

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

Gradation :: Gradation (n.) A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.

Figure :: Figure (n.) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression..

Root :: Root (n.) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed..

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..

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..

Pelecoid :: Pelecoid (n.) A figure, somewhat hatched-shaped, bounded by a semicircle and two inverted quadrants, and equal in area to the square ABCD inclosed by the chords of the four quadrants..

Seventh :: Seventh (n.) A chord which includes the interval of a seventh whether major, minor, or diminished..

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

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

Za :: Za (n.) An old solfeggio name for B flat; the seventh harmonic, as heard in the or aeolian string; -- so called by Tartini. It was long considered a false, but is the true note of the chord of the flat seventh..

Disjunctive :: Disjunctive (a.) Pertaining to disjunct tetrachords.

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