Chime

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
• 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
• 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

Popular culture

• The Chimes, an 1844 short novel by Charles Dickens
• "Chime" (song), a 1989 single release by Orbital
• Chime (video game), released in 2010
• The Georgetown Chimes, Georgetown University's oldest all-male a cappella group
• Chimes, a magical force that paradoxically destroys magic in the novel Soul of the Fire by Terry Goodkind

Other

• Chime, the rim of a barrel, one at each end; Chime hoops, the iron hoops nearest to the ends of a wooden barrel (Bilge hoops are the hoops nearest to the bulge, or center)
• MDL Chime, a plugin used by web browsers to display the 3D structure of molecules

CHIME may refer to:

• Zunich–Kaye syndrome, also known as CHIME syndrome, a rare combination of congenital birth defects
• College of Healthcare Information Management Executives
• Centre for Health Informatics and Multidisciplinary Education, part of University College London

See also

• All pages beginning with "Chime"
• All pages with titles containing "Chime"
• Chimera (disambiguation)
• Chyme, human body digestive fluid