(n.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.
(n.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.
(n.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4.
(n.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension.
(v. t.) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
(v. i.) To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.
Example Sentences:
(1) The scleral arc length is slightly longer than the chord length (caliper setting).
(2) I'm sure Evan wouldn't mind me saying that he makes no secret of an occasional discomfort about conventional chord-change playing in jazz, and tends to sit out occasions where it's required, as he did last year in London on a gig in which the pianist Django Bates was reworking Charlie Parker tunes.
(3) He’s struck a few chords with the immigration stuff, and he’s managed to capture the most valuable asset in a campaign, which is the attention of the press.
(4) The mean value of outer villous perimeter, mean chord length and per cent area were respectively 46.9 mu (X 1000 mu 2) with a standard deviation of 4.6, 57.7 mu (standard deviation 9.3) and 66.1% (standard deviation 7.4).
(5) This is shown by serial reconstruction analysis of the largest diameter of synapses from maximal arc and chord length measurements at the subpial and supra Purkinje level.
(6) Nevertheless, Dickens's preoccupation with class in Great Expectations strikes a chord with Coltrane, who gives a good idea of what it means to him when he recalls coming across a few Bullingdon Club types outside a restaurant in Soho one night.
(7) From the intersection points, epicardial and endocardial circumferential chord and arc lengths were measured and angular twist of mid and apical levels with respect to the base (maximal torsion and its reversal, untwisting) was calculated.
(8) Although such allegations have been made before in numerous news outlets, and in a controversial one-man show by playwright Mike Daisey, this time they have struck a chord.
(9) Zonal Vct and percent shortening along the proximal, middle and distal chords were measured.
(10) Clinical appearance of mitral incompetence associated with mitral dysplasia (abnormal connective tissue structure in the cusps and chordae, with significant accumulation of acid mucopolysaccharides) is dependent on the extent of regurgitation, its pathogenetic mechanism (sudden or progressive), the presence of the prolapsing cusp syndrome, and attendant complications (endocarditis, chord abruption).
(11) In the larynx, changes in the area of the vocal chord and the cartilaginous laryngeal structures were investigated in particular.
(12) Bridget's combination of self-loathing, enthusiasm and hope against the odds struck a chord.
(13) In his recent autobiography, Wild Tales , Graham Nash – of the Hollies and Crosby Stills & Nash – recalled the effect the song had on him when he heard it at a school dance in Salford: "It was like the opening of a giant door in my soul, the striking of a chord... from which I've never recovered … From the time when I first heard the Everly Brothers, I knew I wanted to make music that affected people the way the Everlys affected me."
(14) The poem touches a chord, because it doesn't deal with the often incoherent motivations of those who smashed up Tottenham and elsewhere, but the feelings of the rest of us: shocked, unsettled and confused.
(15) It appears simple perhaps in its chording but generally, to actually play what we play and how we play it, it’s not simple.
(16) During some maneuver, at least one akinetic chord occurred in 57% of patients and out-of-phase chords in 33% of patients.
(17) While it is true that a descending chromatic four-chord progression is a common convention that abounds in the music industry, the similarities here transcend this core structure,” Klausner wrote.
(18) The voltage dependence of the K+ chord conductance (gK) also shifted positive along the voltage axis, and the maximum conductance increased, with elevation of [K+]out.
(19) The chord conductance of the channel decreased with membrane depolarization from 14.6 pS at -104 mV to only 9.9 pS at -54 mV.
(20) Specifically, chords 5.9 times longer on average (range = 5.4-6.2) were required on the proximal forearm than on the index finger pad.
Subtense
Definition:
(a.) A line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; as, the subtense of an arc.
Example Sentences:
(1) For patients sensitive at normal viewing distances, where 50 Hz diffuse flicker appeared to be responsible for the induction of paroxysmal activity, the probability with which paroxysmal activity was induced was closely related to the subtense of the screen.
(2) Pairs of test colors of equal hues and apparent lightnesses and 2 degrees subtense were positioned successively within the pair of complex targets and were judged for relative color saturation.
(3) There is considerable variation between patients in the subtense of a centrally-fixated circular pattern necessary to induce paroxysmal activity with a given probability.
(4) The angular subtense of the TV screen was 15.3 degrees X 11.31 degrees.
(5) For patients sensitive only at closer viewing distances the probability was influenced not by the subtense of the screen but by the subtense of its lines, suggesting that the paroxysmal activity was induced by the 25 Hz pattern alternation produced by the scan.
(6) Stimulus field subtense was 3.5 degrees, and mean luminance was 10 cd.m-2.
(7) A circular, spatially uniform stimulus of 1 degree angular subtense was presented with sinusoidal modulation at 5, 8, 14 and 23 Hz.
(8) For each subject, and group-averaged data, accommodative responses were independent of letter limb subtense.
(9) The visual evoked potentials (VEPs) to pattern reversal stimulation (26' individual check subtense, 11 degrees total field) have been examined in 10 patients with proven chiasmal compression.
(10) Increases in the near addition that may be required by patients after their early fifties are probably associated with an age-dependent decrease in acuity, which necessitates a closer working distance to increase angular subtense, rather than with any continuing decline in accommodation.
(11) The visibility of a uniformly luminous object depends on the apparent contrast between the object and its background, the angular subtense of the object, the contrast threshold of the observer at the level of luminance to which the eyes are adapted, the conditions and technique of observing, and the shape of the object.
(12) First, Reed assumes that the moon's failure to increase in visual subtense while elevating is accounted for strictly by perceptual distancing.
(13) Monochromatic stimuli were presented foveally in a circular, horizontally oriented, bipartite field of 100 Td and angular subtense 2 degrees.
(14) Two observers performed simple reaction-time responses to peripheral stimuli of varying intensity (-2.5 to +1.0 log td) and angular subtense (10 to 210 min).
(15) In the second study, where the angular subtense of the television screen and the subtense of its lines were manipulated independently, the convulsive response was found to be a function of both factors, the relative contribution of each depending on the viewing distance at which the patient was sensitive.
(16) However, for every patient an increase in the probability of paroxysmal activity from near zero to near unity is effected by an increase in the angular subtense of the pattern by a factor of two.
(17) Experiments are described that establish the general relation between extent of saltatory leaping and degree of retinal eccentricity and between leaping and retinal subtense of stimulus patches.
(18) These same two subjects also learned to judge "objective size" when angular subtense systematically increased with increasing depth in an exact inversion of the natural relationship.
(19) A significant decrease in performance was found when the bars were positioned at 0.71 to 1.42 times the angular subtense of the gap for both the preschool children and the adults.
(20) Each is asked to choose a comparison circle, which appears to be the same size, out of a series of eleven filled circles of various angular subtenses larger and smaller than the standard filled circle in the tachistoscope.