Chord

Chord or chords may refer to:

Art and music

Chord (music), an aggregate of musical pitches sounded simultaneously
- Guitar chord a chord played on a guitar, which has a particular tuning
The Chords (British band), 1970s British mod revival band
The Chords (American band), 1950s American doo-wop group
The Chord (painting), a c.1715 painting by Antoine Watteau
Andrew Chord
, a comic book character who is the former mentor of the New Warriors

Chord (concurrency), a concurrency construct in some object-oriented programming languages
Chord (peer-to-peer), a peer-to-peer protocol and algorithm for distributed hash tables (DHT)

Chord (astronomy), a line crossing a foreground astronomical object during an occultation which gives an indication of the object's size and/or shape
Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector (CHORD), a proposed successor to the CHIME radio telescope
Chord (aeronautics), the distance between the front and back of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow. The term chord was selected due to the curved nature of the wing's surface
Chord in truss construction – an outside member of a truss, as opposed to the inner "webbed members"
In British railway terminology, a chord can refer to a short curve of track connecting two otherwise unconnected railway lines.
Mouse chording, the capability to perform an action when holding multiple buttons on a computer mouse.
Chord keyboard
, a computer device allowing for input based on pressing multiple keys simultaneously