mon|o|chord

mon|o|chord
mon|o|chord «MON uh krd», noun.
an instrument composed of a sounding board with a single string stretched over a bridge that can be moved along a graduated scale, used for the mathematical determination of musical intervals by the division of the string into two separately vibrating parts.
[< Middle French monocorde < Late Latin monochordos < Greek mónos one + chord string, chord1]

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