Chime
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Chimes are a percussion instrument struck with hammers.
Chime or chimes may also refer to:
Places
[edit]- Chimes, Arkansas, a community in the United States
People
[edit]- Terry Chimes (born 1956), English musician
- Chime Rinpoche (born 1941), Tibetan Buddhist Lama and Tulku
- Chime Tulku (born 1991), Buddhist Tulku
Acronyms
[edit]- Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, a radio telescope
- College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, the professional organization for chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders
- Zunich–Kaye syndrome, also known as CHIME syndrome, a rare combination of congenital birth defects
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Musical instrument or tone
[edit]- Chime (bell instrument), an array of large bells, typically housed in a tower and played from a keyboard
- Chimes, the sounds produced by a striking clock to announce the hours
- Bar chimes (also known as "mark tree"), a series of many small chimes of decreasing length, arranged horizontally
- Chime bars, individual instruments similar to glockenspiel bars but with resonators
- Macintosh startup chime, the sound a Macintosh computer makes on startup
- Warning chime, a sound used in machinery or computers to alert users of a dangerous condition, error, completion of a process, etc.
- Wind chime or Aeolian chime, suspended bells sounded when blown together by the wind
- Handchimes, an instrument that is rung by hand, similar to handbells.
Music
[edit]Albums
[edit]- Chime (Yuki Saito album), 1986
- Chime (Dessa album), 2018
- Chimes EP, 2014 EP by Hudson Mohawke
Songs
[edit]- "Chime" (song), a 1989 single release by Orbital
- "Chimes" (song), a 2014 single release by Hudson Mohawke
Other music
[edit]- Chimes (Gavrilin), a Russian-language choral work by Valery Gavrilin that premiered in 1984
Other arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- Chime (novel), a 2011 young adult novel by Franny Billingsley
- Chime (video game), released in 2010
- Chimes, a magical force that paradoxically destroys magic in the novel Soul of the Fire by Terry Goodkind
Other uses
[edit]- Chime (company), an American financial technology company
- 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