Tie

(Ger. Bin'debogen; Fr. liaison; It. fa’sci a.) A curved line joining 2 notes of like pitch which are to be sounded as one note equal to their united time-value... 7ied notes, (a) notes joined by a tie; (4) notes’ (like eighth - notes, r16th-notes, etc.) the hooks of which are run together_in one or more thick strokes, e.g.