The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chordal \Chor"dal\, a. Of or pertaining to a chord.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context mathematics music English) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of chords. 2 (context music English) Having an accompaniment of chords rather than a countermelody. 3 (context zoology English) Having a notochord; chordate 4 (context graph theory English) For a graph, in which all cycles of four or more vertices have a chord.
WordNet
adj. relating to or consisting of or emphasizing chords; "chordal assonance in modern music"; "chordal rather than contrapuntal music"
Usage examples of "chordal".
He laid the finder's stone down on the table and picked up his chordal horn.
Finder laid his chordal horn on the table and held the finder's stone out before him.
Akabar grabbed the half-elf's right hand in his left and aimed the chordal horn over the soul trap gem on the table.
Most of the tendrils had been smashed by the chordal horn, and Kyre's hand hung from the end of her wrist like a piece of dead meat.
Akabar tried to club Kyre with the chordal horn, but Kyre pulled the instrument out of his hand and threw it to the floor.
Hogg read, at random: The miracle of this uncomplicated monody with its minimal chordal accompaniment is not diminished by our hindsight knowledge that it had been there waiting, throughout recorded history, yet unnoticed by the bearded creaking practitioners of the complex.
But she touched several contact points on the chordal dendritics, cut final power.
Alternately chopping out chordal riffs and weaving intricate and limpid melodies, she pressed power through the guitar, sent a grateful blessing throughout the shop and beyond.
On the table, beside the crystal soul trap and the bowl of rotting fruit, lay a chordal horn, a northern woodwind instrument, which must have belonged to Nameless.