Unison

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Music Identity of pitch; the interval of a perfect prime.
  • n. Music The combination of parts at the same pitch or in octaves.
  • n. The act or an instance of speaking the same words simultaneously by two or more speakers.
  • n. An instance of agreement; concord.
  • idiom. in unison In complete agreement; harmonizing exactly.
  • idiom. in unison At the same time; at once.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The state of being together, in harmony, at the same time, as one, synchronized.
  • n. The simultaneous playing of an identical note more than once.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • adj. Sounding alone.
  • adj. Sounded alike in pitch; unisonant; unisonous.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Sounding alone; unisonous.
  • In music, sounded simultaneously; specifically, noting two or more voice-parts that are coincident in pitch, or a passage or effect thus produced.
  • n. In music: The interval, melodic or harmonic, between any tone and a tone of exactly the same pitch; a perfect prime, acoustically represented by the ratio 1:1. The term is also used as a synonym of prime (as, an augmented unison), though this is objectionable.
  • n. The interval of the octave, especially when occurring between male and female voices, or between higher and lower instruments of the same class.
  • n. The state of sounding at the same pitch—that is, of being at the interval of a unison.
  • n. A single unvaried tone; a monotone. Same as unison string.
  • n. Accordance; agreement; harmony; concord.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. corresponding exactly
  • n. (music) two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in octaves
  • n. occurring together or simultaneously
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    Cross Reference
    Form
    in unison    unisonal    unisonant    unisonance    unisonous   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    harmony    agreement    concord    union    unisonant    unisonous    unisonance    homophony   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    accord    cadence    concord    concurrence    unanimity    harmony    accordance    chord    wail    counterpoint