Chime
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Chime or chimes may refer to:
Musical instrument or tone
- Chime (bell instrument), an array of large bells, typically housed in a tower and played from a keyboard
- An instrument of this kind with 23 bells or more is known as a carillon
- The chimes produced by a striking clock to announce the hours
- Tubular bell, or chimes, a percussion instrument struck with hammers
- Wind chime or Aeolian chime, suspended bells sounded when blown together by the wind
- Bar chimes also known as a Mark tree, a series of many small chimes of decreasing length, arranged horizontally
- Chime bars, individual instruments similar to glockenspiel bars but with resonators
- Warning chime, a sound used in machinery or computers to alert users of a dangerous condition
- Macintosh startup chime, the sound a Macintosh computer makes on startup
People
- Chime Rinpoche (born 1941), Tibetan Buddhist Lama and Tulku
- Chime Tulku (born 1991), Buddhist Tulku
- Terry Chimes (born 1956), English musician
Popular culture
- Chime (video game), released in 2010
- Chime (novel), a 2011 young adult novel by Franny Billingsley
- Chimes, a magical force that paradoxically destroys magic in the novel Soul of the Fire by Terry Goodkind
Music
- Chimes (Gavrilin), a Russian-language choral work by Valery Gavrilin that premiered in 1984
- The Georgetown Chimes, Georgetown University's oldest all-male a cappella group
- Chime (album), a 1986 album by Yuki Saito
- Chimes EP, 2014 EP by Hudson Mohawke
Songs
- "Chime" (song), a 1989 single release by Orbital
- "Chimes" (song), a 2014 single release by Hudson Mohawke
Other
- Chimes, Arkansas, a community in the United States
- Chime, the rim of a barrel, one at each end
- MDL Chime, a plugin used by web browsers to display the 3D structure of molecules
Acronym
- Zunich–Kaye syndrome, also known as CHIME syndrome, a rare combination of congenital birth defects
- College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, the professional organization for chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders
- Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, a radio telescope
See also
- The Chimes (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with "Chime"
- All pages with titles containing Chime
- Chimera (disambiguation)
- Chyme, human body digestive fluid
- Chime Communications (disambiguation)
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