Chime

Chime or chimes may refer to: It is used as a apparatus for striking a bell to produce a musical sound commonly used in front of houses by which visitors announce their presence. It is also used as a name.

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
Chime bars, individual instruments similar to glockenspiel bars but with resonators
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

People

Chime Rinpoche (born 1941), Tibetan Buddhist Lama and Tulku
Chime Tulku (born 1991), Buddhist Tulku

Popular culture

The Chimes, an 1844 short novel by Charles Dickens
Chime (video game), released in 2010
Chime (novel), a 2011 young adult novel by Franny Billingsley
Chimes, a magical force that paradoxically destroys magic in the novel Soul of the Fire by Terry Goodkind

Music

The Georgetown Chimes, Georgetown University's oldest all-male a cappella group
Chime (album), a 1986 album by Yuki Saito
Chimes EP, 2014 EP by Hudson Mohawke

Songs

"Chime" (song), a 1989 single release by Orbital
"Chimes" (song), a 2014 single release by Hudson Mohawke

Other

Chimes, Arkansas, a community in the United States
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

Acronym

Zunich–Kaye syndrome, also known as CHIME syndrome, a rare combination of congenital birth defects
College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, the professional organization for chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders