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concord
  همسازی   
hamsâzi (#)

Fr.: concorde   

Agreement between persons, groups, nations, etc.; unanimity; accord. → concordance.
Music: A stable, harmonious combination of tones.

From O.Fr. concorde, from L. concordia "agreement, union," from concors (gen. concordis) "of the same mind," literally "of the same heart, hearts together," from → com- "together" + cor "heart;" cf. Pers. del "heart;" Av. zərəd-; Skt. hrd-; Gk. kardia; Arm. sirt; P.Gmc. *khertan- (O.E. heorte, E. heart, Ger. Herz, Bret. kreiz "middle"); PIE base *kerd- "heart".

Hamsâzi, from ham-, → com-, + sâz "(musical) instrument; apparatus; harness; furniture," from sâzidan, sâxtan "to build, make, fashion; to adapt, adjust, be fit" (from Mid.Pers. sâxtan, sâz- "to prepare, to form;" Av. sak- "to understand, to mark," sâcaya- (causative) "to teach") + -i suffix that forms nouns from adjectives.

concordance model
  مدل ِ همسازگانی   
model-e hamsâzgâni

Fr.: modèle de concordance   

The currently most commonly used cosmological model that describes the Universe as a flat infinite space in eternal expansion, accelerated under the effect of a repulsive → dark energy. The Universe is 13.7 billion years old and made up of 4% baryonic matter, 23% dark matter and 73% dark energy; the Hubble constant is 71 km/s/Mpc and the density of the Universe is very close to the critical value for re-collapse. These values were derived from → WMAP satellite observations of the → cosmic microwave background radiation.

M.E. concordaunce, from O.Fr. concordance, from L. concordantia, from → concord + -ance a suffix used to form nouns either from adjectives in -ant or from verbs.

Hamsâzgâni, from hamsâz, → concord, + -gân relation and multiplicity suffix + -i suffix that forms noun from adjectives.

cord
  تار، ریسمان   
târ (#), rismân (#)

Fr.: corde   

1) A string or thin rope made of several strands braided, twisted, or woven together.
2) A cordlike structure (Dictionary.com).

M.E., from O.Fr. corde "rope, string, cord," from L. chorda "string of a musical instrument, cat-gut," from Gk. khorde "string, catgut, chord, cord," from PIE root *ghere- "intestine" (etymonline.com).

string.

Cordelia
  کردلیا   
Kordeliyâ

Fr.: Cordelia   

The innermost of → Uranus' known satellites. Cordelia has a diameter of 26 km and orbits Uranus at a mean distance of 49,752 km. It was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 in 1986. Cordelia is the inner → shepherd moon for Uranus's Epsilon ring. → Ophelia.

Named after the daughter of Lear in Shakespeare's play King Lear.

record
  ۱) واگت؛ ۲) واگتیدن   
1) vâgat; 2) vâgatidan

Fr.: 1) enregistrement; 2) enregistrer   

1a) An act of recording.
1b) The state of being recorded, as in writing.
1c) Something on which sound or images have been recorded for subsequent reproduction, as a grooved disk that is played on a phonograph or an optical disk for recording sound (audiodisk) or images (videodisk).
2a) To set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.
2b) To set down or → register in some permanent form, as on a seismograph.
2c) To set down, register, or fix by characteristic marks, incisions, magnetism, etc., for the purpose of reproduction by a phonograph or magnetic reproducer; to make a recording of.

From M.E. recorden "to repeat, to report," from O.Fr. recorder "to get by heart," from L. recordari "to call to mind, remember," from → re- "back, again" + cor "heart" (as the metaphoric seat of memory, as in learn by heart).

Vâgat literally "to take, seize, to take back," cf. Ger. aufnehmen "to record," from nehmen "to take;" E. "take down" "to note down;" Šahmirzâdi vagatan "to take," Lâhijâni vitan, "to take, seize," Aftari veytu "to take," Delijâni bitan "to take," Tâleši gate, Târi gata/ger, Sorxeyi gil, all variants of gereftan, → concept.

vocal cord
  تار ِ آواز   
târ-e âvâz

Fr.: corde vocale   

The sharp edge of a fold of mucous membrane stretching along either wall of the larynx from the angle between the laminae of the thyroid cartilage to the vocal process of the arytenoid cartilage. Vibrations of these cords are used in voice production (The American Heritage).

voice; → cord.