Maybe you're referring to arpeggios? An arpeggio is a broken chord, where the notes are played in order - meaning you would play Root, third, fifth, root, third, fifth etc. You can start on any note.
Let's take a C major chord. It consists of the notes C, E, and G. C is the root note, E is the major third, and G is the fifth.
When you play a standard C chord on the guitar, you're playing these three notes - but often adding duplicates of those notes in different octaves. The standard C chord looks like this (if we skip the low E string): C, E, G, C, E.
A C major arpeggio would be the notes C, E, and G played one after the other, instead of at the same time.
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