Just looking for a definition.

It's "Chord" not "cord". Refers to the width of a turbine or rotor blade. There's a complicated formula to calculate it. Way OT in this forum.

George
 
It refers to the curvature of a fan blade ,turbine blade,or a propeller.it does not refer to knife blade as far as I know.
Stacy
 
Yes,I noticed that.Since I use BLADESMITH as my business name,there is not much to do ,but always sign my posts.Actually,it is worse than that,I use bldsmth on other sites,like ebay.My license plates have been BLDSMTH for several years.It may get confusing.
Stacy

Sorry svflorance, didn't mean to hijack your thread.
Stacy
 
"Chord" is a term in geometry.

It is a line segment which joins two points on a curve.
 
Sounds like something we could use to confuse everyone, develop some highly comprehensive formulas that all reveal absolutely nothing and have some fun with it.
 
I saw that too Stacy a while back and wondered if it would be a problem
it wasn't long ago Kevin Cashen
had the same thing going on. ,,
 
I've been trying to get my user name changed. I've been using bldsmith for the past 10yrs or so on my email address. Still working on getting things worked out.

Chuck
 
bladsmth said:
Yes,I noticed that.Since I use BLADESMITH as my business name,there is not much to do ,but always sign my posts.Actually,it is worse than that,I use bldsmth on other sites,like ebay.My license plates have been BLDSMTH for several years.It may get confusing.
Stacy

Sorry svflorance, didn't mean to hijack your thread.
Stacy[/QUOTE/]

Stacy as you can see got the problem resolved.

Chuck
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Rifon2 wins the prize. In the interim, I went to the dictionary (of all places) for a clue to the answer. Yes, the word is instead "chord", is a term from trigonometry, and refers to a line between two points on a curve. This jives with the context in which I heard it used....to describe the "height" of the point of the leading edge of a mower blade....sort of a "sharpness" measure for blades of that type. Thanks for letting me ask the question...oh, and there ARE equations to describe and calculate it, but unfortunately, they'd actually mean something. Thanks again. svflorance
 
Someone asked where I had heard the term "chord" used. My company is developing a new technology that will be useful among mfrs of mower blades and other industrial blades. The engineers of a couple of major OEMs had used the term...one we weren't familiar with as non-engineers. Let us get a little further down the road with it and I'll be more in a position to be a bit more forthcoming re: the specific nature of the technology. Thanks again for everyone's help. svflorance
 
svflorance said:
Rifon2 wins the prize. In the interim, I went to the dictionary (of all places) for a clue to the answer. Yes, the word is instead "chord", is a term from trigonometry, and refers to a line between two points on a curve. This jives with the context in which I heard it used....to describe the "height" of the point of the leading edge of a mower blade....sort of a "sharpness" measure for blades of that type. Thanks for letting me ask the question...oh, and there ARE equations to describe and calculate it, but unfortunately, they'd actually mean something. Thanks again. svflorance
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Glad I could be of help.
 
Chuck - A.C.Richards - changed his user name to avoid any confusion.It was a nice thing for him to do.....Thanks Chuck.
Stacy
 
Isn't chord also used to desribe the length from leading edge to trailing edge of wings, propellers, and turbine blades?
 
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