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Cord or CORD may refer to:
- Cord (unit), a unit of measurement for firewood and pulpwood used in North America
- Electrical cable, in electronics
- String (structure) made of multiple strands twisted together or
- thin rope
Cord or CORD may also refer to:
Places
People
- Alex Cord (born 1933), American actor and writer
- Chris Cord (born 1940), American racing driver
- Errett Lobban Cord (1894–1974) American industrialist
- Ronnie Cord (1943–1986), Brazilian singer
- Cord McCoy (born 1980), American bull and saddle bronc rider
- Cord Meyer (1920–2001), American CIA official
- Cord Parks (born 1986), American professional football player
- Cord Phelps (born 1987), American professional baseball player
- Cord Pool, guitarist for American red dirt metal band Texas Hippie Coalition
- Cord Widderich (died 1447), German pirate
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Cord (band), a British rock group
- Cord (film), a 2000 film starring Daryl Hannah and Jennifer Tilly
- Cordero "Cord" Buchanon, a fictional character in One Life to Live
- The Cord Weekly, a student newspaper at Wilfrid Laurier University
Biology
- Chronic obstructive respiratory disease or CORD, an alternate name for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Mycelial cord, a structure, used by fungi to transfer nutrients over larger distances
- Spinal cord
- Umbilical cord, a tube that connects a developing embryo or fetus to its placenta
Organizations
Organizations with the acronym CORD include:
- Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders, a non-profit health organization
- Christian Outreach for Relief & Development, a humanitarian organization, based in Leamington Spa, England
- Coalition for Reforms and Democracy, a Kenyan political coalition
- Congress on Research in Dance, a professional society for dance research
- Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors, a scientific organization
Other uses
- Cord (sewing), a decorative trim made of multiple strands of yarn twisted together
- Cord, a short form for the textile type Corduroy
- Cord Automobile, a former American car marque
gollark: Biology: it's very weird and extremely complex.
gollark: Medicine is just very bodgey and unreliable hacky patches to the spaghetti code of life.
gollark: > as bad as it is to say, most of the deaths are people that are only alive from medicine artificially inflating life spans well beyond the designed parameters... is wanting to live longer a bad thing now? There are no "designed parameters" with humans, what with us being weird evolved systems, only "mostly works" ones, and we've been continually pushing those with stuff like, well, medicine.
gollark: The mortality rate of coronavirus is significantly higher than 1% or 2% or whatever if healthcare stuff gets overloaded. Which could happen, and I think is kind of in Italy.
gollark: The Earth isn't flat. It's nonexistent. r/noearthsociety
See also
- Chord (disambiguation)
- Coord (short for coordinate)
- Cordage (disambiguation)
- Cordé, a fictional character in the Star Wars universe
- CORDS (disambiguation)
- Rope (disambiguation)
- String (disambiguation)
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