DISCORD, n. L.
1. Disagreement among persons or things. Between persons, difference of opinions variance opposition contention strife any disagreement which produces angry passions, contest, disputes, litigation or war. Discord may exist between families, parties and nations.
2. Disagreement want of order a clashing.
All discord, harmony not understood.
3. In music, disagreement of sounds dissonance a union of sounds which is inharmonious, grating and disagreeable to the ear or an interval whose extremes do not coalesce. Thus the second and the seventh, when sounded together, make a discord. The term discord is applied to each of the two sounds which form the dissonance, and to the interval but more properly to the mixed sound of dissonant tones. It is opposed to concord and harmony.
DISCORD, To disagree to jar to clash not to suit not to be coincident. Not in use.