Talk:cord

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Rfv-senses:

1. A musical tone; an audible musical note composed of one or more sounds.
2. A cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.

Is this an alternative spelling of chord for these? DCDuring TALK 03:14, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Re aircraft wing cross section, I haven't had time to look thoughougly, but it is a very common spelling, including in books. Will follow up later.--Dmol 08:56, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Even though it seems to occur, it seems like a misspelling rather than an alternative. AFAICT, it isn't nearly as common as the "chord" spelling in either context (<5%). DCDuring TALK 10:01, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

After consulting with Dmol:

• RFV failed music sense.
• Kept aircraft sense as common misspelling for now, but feel free either to re-RFV it (since no one provided citations) or to RFD it (if you do not believe it common enough).

—Ruakh_TALK 15:53, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

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Rfv-sense: The string of a musical instrument. I do not see this sense in dictionaries. First appeared in this revision. --Dan Polansky 17:13, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

It's really (deprecated template usage) chord which has this sense. See oxforddictionaries.com.

The etymology is complicated. Both words ultimately originate from Greek, where the meaning is actually "string of gut, string of a lyre", but as pointed out in w:chord (music), (deprecated template usage) chord also continues Middle English cord, which is a shortening of (deprecated template usage) accord, an unrelated term. --Florian Blaschke 19:50, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 02:08, 21 August 2011 (UTC)