different between simultaneity vs chord

English

Etymology

From French simultanéité.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?m?lt??ni??ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sa?m?lt??ni?ti/
• Rhymes: -i??ti

Noun

simultaneity (countable and uncountable, plural simultaneities)

1. The quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneousness.
2. (music) More than one complete musical texture occurring at the same time. This first appeared in the music of Charles Ives, and is common in the music of Conlon Nancarrow, and others.

Synonyms

• (state of being simultaneous): concurrentness, synchroneity; see also Thesaurus:simultaneousness

Translations

See also

• simultaneous adj
• simultaneously adv
• pitch simultaneity noun

English

Alternative forms

• (music): cord (dated)

Etymology

Variant of cord, with spelling alteration due to Latin chorda (“cord”), ultimately from Ancient Greek (Doric) ????? (khordá), (Ionic) ????? (khord?, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??(?)d/
• (US) enPR: kôrd, IPA^(key): /k??d/
• Homophones: cord, cored (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Noun

chord (plural chords)

2. (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
3. (geometry) A straight line between two points of a curve.
4. (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
   1. (rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
5. (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
6. (nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
7. (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
8. The string of a musical instrument.
9. (anatomy) A cord.
10. (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.

Derived terms

• mixed-interval chord
• strike a chord, touch a chord
• glasschord

Translations

Verb

chord (third-person singular simple present chords, present participle chording, simple past and past participle chorded)

1. (transitive) To write chords for.
2. (music) To accord; to harmonize together.

   This note chords with that one.

3. (transitive) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
   • 1687, John Dryden, A Song for Cecilia's Day

     When Jubal struck the chorded shell.

   • 1862, Henry Ward Beecher, Eyes and Ears

     Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp.

Translations

See also

• simultaneity