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

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

Arpeggio :: Arpeggio (n.) The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played..

Invert :: Invert (v. t.) To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony..

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

Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.

Relative :: Relative (a.) Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other..

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

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

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

Chord :: Chord (n.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.

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

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.

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

Cephalostyle :: Cephalostyle (n.) The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.

Sector :: Sector (n.) A mathematical instrument, consisting of two rulers connected at one end by a joint, each arm marked with several scales, as of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, etc., one scale of each kind on each arm, and all on lines radiating from the common center of motion. The sector is used for plotting, etc., to any scale..

Suspensive :: Suspension (n.) The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects. Cf. Retardation..

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

Progression :: Progression (n.) A regular succession of tones or chords; the movement of the parts in harmony; the order of the modulations in a piece from key to key.

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

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