Word Meanings - SUBTENSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; as, the subtense of an arc.

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• CHORD
  A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord. (more info) 1. The string of a musical instrument. Milton.
• CHORDEE
  A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.
• ACROSS
  1. From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across. Shak. 2. Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ. Bp. Hall.
• STRETCHING
  from Stretch, v. Stretching course , a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton.
• CHORDATA
  A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.
• CHORDAL
  Of or pertaining to a chord.
• STRETCH
  OHG. strecchen, Sw. sträcka, Dan. strække; cf. AS. stræck, strec, strong, violent, G. strack straight; of uncertain origin, perhaps 1. To reach out; to extend; to put forth. And stretch forth his neck long and small. Chaucer. I in
• SUBTENSE
  A line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; as, the subtense of an arc.
• STRETCHER
  A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall. Gwilt. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, stretches.
• SUBTEND
  To extend under, or be opposed to; as, the line of a triangle which subtends the right angle; the chord subtends an arc.
• CHORDA
  A cord. Chorda dorsalis (. Etym: See Notochord.
• HEPTACHORD
  A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones. Moore (more info) A system of seven sounds. A lyre with seven chords.
• LACROSSE
  A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught
• MONOCHORD
  An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of
• UROCHORDAL
  Of or pertaining to the Urochorda.
• PARACHORDAL
  Situated on either side of the notochord; -- applied especially to the cartilaginous rudiments of the skull on each side of the anterior part of the notochord. -- n.
• RHEOCHORD
  A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit.
• PENTACHORD
  1. An ancient instrument of music with five strings. 2. An order or system of five sounds. Busby.
• OCTOCHORD
  See OCTACHORD
• EPICHORDAL
  Upon or above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguished from a perichordal column, which develops around it.
• TRICHORD
  An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings.
• UROCHORD
  The central axis or cord in the tail of larval ascidians and of certain adult tunicates.
• POLYCHORD
  Having many strings.
• NOTOCHORD
  An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebræ and the posterior part of the base of the skull
• UROCHORDA
  See TUNICATA
• HEXACHORD
  A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.