dichord

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noun

A chord with two notes.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

noundichord (plural dichords)

plural dichords

  1. entertainmentA chord with two notes.

    This in turn may lead to splitting the final note of the song into a dichord without the necessary existence of overlapping, but the dichord may be an interval of any kind, since it is melodically formed.

    1981, Robert Fink, The Origin of Music: A Theory of the Universal Development of Music
  2. A musical instrument that has two sets of strings.

    Many modern instrument collections contain instruments shaped like eighteenth-century trumpet marines, but which might better be described as dichords equipped with common string instrument bridges so as to be played as basses.

    1991, Cecil Adkins, A trumpet by any other name: a history of the trumpet marine
  3. An ancient two-stringed lute.

Origin

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