coda

(kō'də)
n.

1. Music. The concluding passage of a movement or composition.
2. A conclusion or closing part of a statement.

[Italian, from Latin cauda, tail.]

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Coda, from a Latin word meaning "tail," refers not only to the conclusion of a musical composition but also to an ending in general. The New York Times pessimistically sees the current Israel-Hezbollah conflict as a coda in more than one sense:

"If this war ends for Israel as badly as it has started — it intensified last week after a hiccup of an Israeli ceasefire — it could well mean not only the end of Mr. Olmert's political career but a harsh coda to Mr. Sharon's life's work."

Link: Sharon Set the Stage His Heir Reacts On - New York Times

Posted August 7, 2006.

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(1) A distributed file system developed at Carnegie Mellon University in the late 1980s. Evolving from the Andrews File System, Coda is noted for its ability to withstand network failures. See AFS.

(2) A software company based in the U.K. that produces accounting software for mainframes, VAX and client/server environments. The parent company is the Coda Group, Plc. with U.S. offices in Manchester, NH.

(3) Earlier Web authoring software from RandomNoise, Inc., San Francisco, CA. It was used to generate very sophisticated Web sites that were built in Java rather than HTML codes. Coda itself is written in Java.

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(It.)

‘Tail’: the last part of a piece or melody; an addition to a standard form or design. In fugue the coda is anything occurring after the last entry of the subject, in sonata form anything coming after the recapitulation.

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The method of funding any type of qualified profit-sharing or stock bonus plan. Cash or deferred arrangements allow employees to contribute a portion of their salaries to the plan so that their savings can grow tax-deferred. The most common type of CODA is a cash bonus which is paid into their 401(k) plan, but it could also be a salary reduction.

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Employees who participate in cash or deferred arrangements may still contribute to traditional or Roth IRAs as well. However, they may not receive the full deduction from a traditional IRA contribution if their incomes are above a certain level. CODA plans allow the individual to fund their retirement and avoid immediate taxation on the diverted contributions.

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An ending to a piece of music, standing outside the formal structure of the piece. Coda is the Italian word for “tail.”

IN BRIEF: n. - The closing section of a musical composition.

Tutor's tip: A "coda" is a summarizing part that is somehow separate from the whole, a "code" is a set of symbols, while a "coed" is either a female student or a term that indicates a school has both make and female students.

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For a list of words related to coda, see:

• Devices, Techniques, and Elements - coda: concluding or summary part of literary work
• Harmony, Melody, and Structure - coda: passage added to final section of piece
• Ballet - coda: final section of classical grand pas de deux

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - afslutning

Nederlands (Dutch)
coda (muziek/ballet), laatste deel

Français (French)
n. - épilogue, (Mus) coda

Deutsch (German)
n. - (Mus.) Koda

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (μουσ.) κόντα

Italiano (Italian)
coda

Português (Portuguese)
n. - coda (f) (Mús.)

Русский (Russian)
кода

Español (Spanish)
n. - coda

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - coda (mus.), slutvinjett (bildl.)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
终结句, 完结部, 乐章结尾部

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 終結句, 完結部, 樂章結尾部

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 코다, 문예 작품의 종결부, 피날레

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 結尾, 尾連

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نهايه مقطوعه موسيقيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮יסף (במוסיקה), קטע הסיום של בלט, אירוע או סדרת אירועים אחרונה‬

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