chording
Britishnoun
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the distribution of chords throughout a piece of harmony
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the intonation of a group of instruments or voices
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Chicagoan Miller will please "progressives" with his tricky beat and boppish chording.
From Time Magazine Archive
All his favorites, chording slower and slower, quieter and quieter.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Thankfully my injured thumb was on my chording hand, where it would be a relatively minor inconvenience.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
You say that all physical phenomena come from the chording vibration of the etheric and prakritic atoms of the two planes of matter.
From Ancient and Modern Physics by Thomas E. Willson
So you see that the ether is not vibrating in a single note, but in two chording notes, producing light and heat.
From Ancient and Modern Physics by Thomas E. Willson
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