chord2
• noun 1 a straight line joining the ends of an arc. 2 the width of an aircraft’s wing from leading to trailing edge. 3 Engineering each of the two principal members of a truss. 4 Anatomy variant spelling of CORD. — PHRASES strike (or touch) a chord affect or stir someone’s emotions. — ORIGIN a later spelling (influenced by Latin chorda ‘rope’) of CORD.
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