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What does chordal mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word chordal? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (mathematics) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of chords.
  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.
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It leads without pause into a restatement of the theme by the orchestra, with delicate chordal embroidery in the piano.
Chromatic, harplike swirls, fluid chordal figures and alluring bent notes showed the koto's more familiar character.
In Amphioxus the notochord is immediately surrounded by a structureless cuticular layer, the chordal sheath.
Nineteenth-century harmonic usage, therefore, tended to expand not only the chordal vocabulary itself but also the function of chords.
Of the divine spheral music, the one is the chordal harmony, the other the consecutive harmony or melody.
Their textures are dominated by right-hand melodies against chordal accompaniment figures.

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