Polychoric

Quick meaning: Polychoric is an adjective meaning (music) Of or pertaining to the use of more than one chorus; that uses or is intended to use more than one chorus.

Meaning

(music) Of or pertaining to the use of more than one chorus; that uses or is intended to use more than one chorus.

More Meanings

1. A polychoric correlation
2. (statistics) Of or pertaining to the relationship between two latent variables, each assumed to have a normal distribution and associated with an ordinal variable.

Example Sentences

The brilliant polychoric canzona has contrasting sections of imitation and homophony; this evolved into the Baroque sonata.

The polychoric correlation coefficient is an estimator of the correlation coefficient in the underlying bivariate normal distribution.

The polychoric motets of the Venetian school (Willaert, the Gabrielis, etc., some of whose motets are found in CW vol. 10 and IM vols. 1-2) furnish striking possibilities for multiple brass choirs.

Socioeconomic status (SES) was represented by a factor score derived using the polychoric method, which is a variation on the principle component analysis procedure designed for use with dichotomous and categorical variables (Kolenikov S, 2004).

Word Forms

• polychorics

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include polychoral, polychoir, polychordal, multichord, polychord, chordal.

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