Definitions for chordal

chordal chord·al

Spelling: [kawr-dl]
IPA: /ˈkɔr dl/

Chordal is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 196 anagrams from letters in chordal (acdhlor).

Definitions for chordal

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or resembling a chord.
  2. of or relating to music that is marked principally by vertical harmonic movement rather than by linear polyphony.

Origin of chordal

First recorded in 1610-20; chord2 + -al1

Examples for chordal

In Elasmobranchii the chordal sheath is weak and the skeletogenous layer strong.

Of the divine spheral music, the one is the chordal harmony, the other the consecutive harmony or melody.

The notochord remains permanently unconstricted and is enclosed in a chordal sheath, external to which is the skeletogenous layer.

In Amphioxus the notochord is immediately surrounded by a structureless cuticular layer, the chordal sheath.

Word Value for chordal
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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