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English
Etymology
From tri- + coordinate + -ing, referring to simultaneous movement along three orthogonal axes.
Pronunciation
Noun
trichording (uncountable)
- (slang, video games) Moving in three directions, about three axes.
1997, micnet, “SpaceOrb Debate (was: auto-levelling)”, in alt.games.descent (Usenet):I know nothing about elite players but I belive trichording works at its best in dogfights.
2002, Samus, “Releasing the 1.5 patch unofficially...”, in alt.games.descent (Usenet):In order to know when someone's cheating, one has to know everything about the weapons in Descent 3. One must know reload rates, relative shield damage, and physics (to a small degree). One should also know about ship physics for each ship, and of course know about trichording and know what it looks like when a certain ship is trichording.
Usage notes
- Used by players of the Descent (video game) series and others where accelerating along multiple axes yields a speed increase.
- *Trichord as a verb (trichords, trichorded) is unattested, but may gain usage. The second usage in the quotation above is a rare example of use as a verb.