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chime

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chime, in music: see bell bell, in music, a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow metal vessel, often cup-shaped with an outward-flaring rim, damped at one end and set into vibration by a blow from a clapper within or from a hammer without.
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CHIME
(College of Healthcare Information Management Executives) For more information, visit www.cio-chime.org. See healthcare IT.
chime1
1. an individual bell or the sound it makes when struck
2. the machinery employed to sound a bell in this way
3. a percussion instrument consisting of a set of vertical metal tubes of graduated length, suspended in a frame and struck with a hammer
chime2, chimb, chine
the projecting edge or rim of a cask or barrel


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But the echoes of the chime die away--they have endured but an instant--and a light, half-subdued laughter floats after them as they depart.
The Raven by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
A bell was ringing from the tower of a little white church on the far side; mellowly and dreamily sweet, the chime floated across the water blent with the moan of the sea.
Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
The slave auctioneer's bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master.
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