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弦
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Definitions
- 1. bow string
- 2. string of musical instrument
- 3. watchspring
- 4. chord (segment of curve)
- 5. hypotenuse
Words Containing 弦
minor triad la-do-mi
(music) triad; three-note chord
bowstring
see 弦外之音[xián wài zhī yīn]
G-string
to wind up a watch, clockwork toy etc
guqin or seven-stringed zither
string theory (in theoretical physics)
law of sines
string orchestra
third quarter moon, aka last quarter moon
last quarter, aka third quarter (phase of the moon)
(math.) sine
to put strings on the zither, then play it (line from a Ming dynasty text by 劉伯溫|刘伯温[liú bó wēn])
string (of a stringed instrument)
orchestral music
to tighten the strings (of a musical instrument)
augmented triad (musical chord)
Jew's harp
pipa strings, made from sinews of large crane or swan 鵾雞|鹍鸡[kūn jī]
sinusoidal (shaped like a sine wave)
incessant playing of instruments and reciting of poems (idiom)
overtone (music)
seventh (musical cord)
string music
hyperbolic sine or sinh (math.)
string instrument
orchestra
string instrument
half-moon
to excite
chord (music)
hyperbolic cosine or cosh (math.)
(literary) (of a widower) to remarry
heartstrings
(math.) cosine
first quarter moon
number of strings (of an instrument)
hammered string type (of musical instrument)
major triad do-mi-so
(music) arpeggio
superstring (physics)
chord angle (i.e. angle a chord of a curve makes to the tangent)
(wing) aspect ratio (aerodynamics)
plucked string or stringed instrument
tuning (stringed instrument)
change of string, move out of rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction
to sing to a string accompaniment
tonic triad
orchestra
sine wave
a narrow slit window
Changde sixian, theatrical folk music style with singing in Changde dialect accompanied by traditional string instruments
widowed
hammered string musical instrument
see 弦外之音[xián wài zhī yīn]
hyperbolic sine or sinh (math.)
string theory (physics)