Usually means: Single-stringed instrument for studying pitch.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. monochord: Merriam-Webster
  2. monochord: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. monochord: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. monochord: Collins English Dictionary
  5. monochord: Wordnik
  6. monochord: Wiktionary
  7. monochord: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. monochord: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. monochord: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. monochord: Dictionary.com
  11. Monochord: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Monochord: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. monochord: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Monochord: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. monochord: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. monochord: FreeDictionary.org
  17. monochord: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. monochord: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. monochord: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monochord: The Folk File

Definitions from Wiktionary (monochord)

noun:  A musical instrument for experimenting with the mathematical relations of musical sounds, consisting of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which can be moved, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.
noun:  A stringed instrument with only one string.
noun:  A bass note on a piano that has a single string.

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