chordal

English

Etymology

From chord ‎ -al.

Adjective

chordal (not comparable)

1. (mathematics, music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of chords.
   • 1985 December 21, Nan Donald, “Flat-picking up a Storm”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 23, page 11:

     They play very well together, with Vogl providing the melodic and chordal framework and Shanbaum riffing over it.

2. (music) Having an accompaniment of chords rather than a countermelody.
3. (zoology) Having a notochord; chordate
4. (graph theory) For a graph, in which all cycles of four or more vertices have a chord.

Derived terms

• achordal
• chordal graph
• chordality
• chordally
• chordal space
• chordal style
• chordal theorem
• chordal thickness
• epichordal
• hypochordal
• nonchordal
• parachordal
• perichordal
• prechordal
• prochordal

 

Translations

consisting of chords

having an accompaniment of chords

having a notochord

kind of graph

• French: cordal (fr)
• Italian: cordale

Anagrams

• dorlach