Unison
['juːnɪs(ə)n] or ['jʊnəsn]
Definition
(noun.) (music) two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in octaves; 'singing in unison'.
(noun.) occurring together or simultaneously; 'the two spoke in unison'.
(noun.) corresponding exactly; 'marching in unison'.
Editor: Margaret--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Harmony; agreement; concord; union.
(n.) Identity in pitch; coincidence of sounds proceeding from an equality in the number of vibrations made in a given time by two or more sonorous bodies. Parts played or sung in octaves are also said to be in unison, or in octaves.
(n.) A single, unvaried.
(n.) Sounding alone.
(n.) Sounded alike in pitch; unisonant; unisonous; as, unison passages, in which two or more parts unite in coincident sound.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Agreement, accordance, accord, concord, harmony.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:harmony, agreement, concord, union
ANT:Discord, disharmony, disagreement, disunion, variance
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Definition
n. oneness or agreement of sound: concord: harmony—adj. U′nisōnal.—adv. U′nisōnally.—n. U′nisōnance state of being unisonant: accordance of sounds.—adjs. U′nisōnant U′nisōnous being in unison.
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Examples
- She was not at all sure that it was this mutual unison in separateness that she wanted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They danced to the popular Revolution song, keeping a ferocious time that was like a gnashing of teeth in unison. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The great trees bent in unison as though pressed earthward by a mighty hand. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Then shall the huge bell tremble--then the mass With myriad waves concurrent shall respond In low soft unison. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If you admit a unison, you forfeit all the possibilities of chaos. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His life was swallowed up in the existence of his beloved; and his heart beat only in unison with the pulsations that vivified hers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- As a matter of fact, if you enter into a pure unison, it is irrevocable, and it is never pure till it is irrevocable. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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