n. An acoustic instrument consisting of a sounding box with one string and a movable bridge, used to study musical tones. [Middle English monocorde, from Old French, from Medieval Latin monochordum, from Greek monokhordon : mono-, mono- + khordē, string; see CORD.] |
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