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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unison
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
work
▪ When men and women work in unison they can get a hold of anything.
▪ It only needed two men working in unison to raise and lower the junk sails to suit the wind strength.
▪ I am pleased to report that I believe the various committees are working in unison to further develop the understanding between them.
▪ The two men, working in unison, kicked out the panel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All consider that good and evil can not be in unison.
▪ It only needed two men working in unison to raise and lower the junk sails to suit the wind strength.
▪ Stephen Legate looked out of phase in the unison tableaux.
▪ The office fellows on the table behind laughed abruptly and in unison.
▪ They deserve to be listed in this context, as they often operate in unison even if they do not always do so.
▪ While her class was reciting in unison you could not hear very much in mine.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unison

Unison \U"ni*son\ (?; 277), a. [Cf. It. unisono. See Unison, n.]

  1. Sounding alone. [Obs.]

    [sounds] intermixed with voice, Choral or unison.
    --Milton.

  2. (Mus.) Sounded alike in pitch; unisonant; unisonous; as, unison passages, in which two or more parts unite in coincident sound.

Unison

Unison \U"ni*son\ (?; 277), n. [LL. unisonus having the same sound; L. unus one + sonus a sound: cf. F. unisson, It. unisono. See One, and Sound a noise.]

  1. Harmony; agreement; concord; union.

  2. (Mus.) 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.

    Note: If two cords of the same substance have equal length, thickness, and tension, they are said to be in unison, and their sounds will be in unison. Sounds of very different qualities and force may be in unison, as the sound of a bell may be in unison with a sound of a flute. Unison, then, consists in identity of pitch alone, irrespective of quality of sound, or timbre, whether of instruments or of human voices. A piece or passage is said to be sung or played in unison when all the voices or instruments perform the same part, in which sense unison is contradistinguished from harmony.

  3. A single, unvaried. [R.]
    --Pope.

    In unison, in agreement; agreeing in tone; in concord.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unison

1570s, "note having the same pitch as another; identity in pitch of two or more sounds; interval between tones of the same pitch," especially the interval of an octave, from Middle French unisson "unison, accord of sound" (16c.) or directly from Medieval Latin unisonus "having one sound, sounding the same," from Late Latin unisonius "in immediate sequence in the scale, monotonous," from Latin uni- "one" (see one) + sonus "sound" (see sound (n.1)). Figurative sense of "harmonious agreement" is first attested 1640s.

Wiktionary
unison

n. 1 The state of being together, in harmony, at the same time, as one, synchronized. 2 (context music English) The simultaneous playing of an identical note more than once.

WordNet
unison
  1. n. corresponding exactly; "marching in unison"

  2. occurring together or simultaneously; "the two spoke in unison"

  3. (music) two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in octaves; "singing in unison"

Wikipedia
Unison

In music, unison is two or more musical parts sounding the same pitch or at an octave interval, usually at the same time.

Rhythmic patterns which are homorhythmic are also called unison.

Unison (disambiguation)

A unison is an interval in music.

Unison may also refer to:

Unison (file synchronizer)

Unison is a file synchronization program. It is used for synchronizing files between two directories, either on one computer, or between a computer and another storage device (e.g. another computer, or a removable disc). It runs on Unix-like operating systems (including Linux, Mac OS X, Android, and Solaris) and Windows.

Unison (Usenet client)

Unison is a shareware Mac OS X client for Usenet, developed by Panic Software. It supports binary file downloading (including NZB support), group browsing and segmenting and error checking utilities. The software won the Apple Design Award for Best Mac OS X User experience in 2004, as well as being a runner-up in the "Best product" category.

On 6 November 2014 Panic Software announced, with the release of version 2.2, that all further work on Unison had been discontinued. Unison is still available for download and no longer requires a purchased license; however, it is unsupported by Panic.

Unison (Angels and Agony album)

Unison is an album by the Dutch futurepop band Angels and Agony.

Unison (Shin Terai album)

Unison is the first album of Japanese composer Shin Terai, released in 2001. The album features contributions of bassist and producer Bill Laswell, avant-garde guitarists Buckethead (who would join Guns N' Roses soon after the recording sessions) and Nicky Skopelitis, and Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell. The album met very good reviews from critics mainly because of the soft guitars and the funky bass.

Unison (George Mraz and Zoe Rahman album)

Unison is a studio album by musicians George Mraz and Zoe Rahman, released on 15 July 2013 by Cube-Metier.

UNISoN (Social Network Analysis Tool)

UNISoN is a java application that can download Usenet messages from free NNTP servers, show the saved messages, then allow filtering of data to save to a Pajek network file or CSV file. It creates networks using the author of each post. If someone replies to a post, there is a unidirectional link created from the author of the post to the author of the message they are replying to. There is also a preview panel that shows the network visually. It was developed in 2008 as part of an MSc Business Systems Analysis & Design at City University. and was released as Freeware. In 2016 the code was made Open Source.

Unison (Celine Dion album)

Unison is the 15th studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion and her first studio album recorded in English. The album was originally released on 2 April 1990 by Columbia Records. Its music incorporates a range of contemporary genres with a mix of ballads and dance songs. Dion worked with a range of professional writers and producers, including Christopher Neil, David Foster, Tom Keane and Andy Goldmark.

Upon release, the album received generally positive reviews from music critics, who complimented Dion's voice and technique, as well as the album's content. On the commercial level, Unison reached top ten in Norway and top twenty in Canada. Eventually, it was certified seven-times Platinum in Canada, Platinum in the United States, and Gold in the United Kingdom and France. The album has sold over three million copies worldwide.

Up to five singles were released from Unison, depending on the country. " Where Does My Heart Beat Now" became a top five hit on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number four. The next US single, " (If There Was) Any Other Way" peaked at number thirty-five. In 1991, Unison won Juno Award for Album of the Year and Dion won Juno Award for Female Vocalist of the Year.

Unison (song)

"Unison" is a song written by Andy Goldmark and Bruce Roberts, and first recorded by R&B/dance artist Junior Giscombe (as Junior) in 1983 for the Tom Cruise movie All the Right Moves. A minor hit, the song would attract a good deal of attention in 1990, when three female singers each covered the song and placed it on their respective albums of that year.

Laura Branigan recorded the song for her sixth, self-titled album. Expatriate American singer Lory Bianco recorded the song for her album Lonely is the Night. The song's greatest success, however, would come when it was chosen to be the title track of Celine Dion's English debut album.

Unison (video)

Unison is Celine Dion's first home video, released on VHS on July 2, 1991. It includes the music videos from her English debut album Unison.

This collection features never before used version of " Calling You," previously unreleased version of Dion's breakthrough hit " Where Does My Heart Beat Now" (Canadian black-and-white version mixed with the U.S. performance version), plus exclusive interviews with Dion at her home.

Three videos: " Délivre-moi," " Have a Heart," and "Calling You" were filmed during the Unison Tour at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto, Canada, and later shown in the 1991 MusiMax TV special.

In the United States, the U.S. version of " (If There Was) Any Other Way" from 1991 was included; in Canada, the Canadian version from 1990. This VHS was made in both English and in French. The two contain similar interviews conducted in both languages.

Unison home video was certified Gold in Canada.

Unison (collaboration software)

Unison was a collaboration software service that provided private group spaces, "rooms", to teams. It was developed by Unison Technologies, Inc., of New York City, which promoted the software as a faster alternative to group email or enterprise social networks. Functionality included instant messaging, voice and video chat, and private "rooms" where employees could post updates, files or images and respond with comments.

Unison was distributed under a freemium business model.

The software originally supported Windows PC, Mac and Linux via its web client. Unison also had clients for iOS and Android.

Usage examples of "unison".

One was convinced and believed and assented because it was gratifying and delightful to think and feel and believe in unison with an intellect of such evident superiority.

The companions opened fire in unison, the barrage of lead blowing holes through the wings and forcing it back.

Then, chanting in unison and with the help of mastodont muscles, they pulled her on her back.

But of that fellowship that plans in unison, suffers in sympathy, enjoys vicariously, strengthens into friendship and communion of soul they knew nothing.

Reciting the words in unison with the actor, Phate turned off the freeway at a San Jose exit and five minutes later he was cruising past the brooding Spanish colonial St.

Tenth swung their feet in unison and sang their marching songs through the lands of the Morini around Portus Itius.

This was apparently in the nature of a scalawag toast, for the six scoundrels guzzled their pots in unison, Shelyid joining in, with a ravenous fervor which, it can hardly be doubted, caused the angels to ring the dome of heaven with a united peal of outrage.

This was apparently something in the way of a ruffianly toast, for the six scalawags raised their teacups in unison, pinkies politely extended like so many small logs, and slurped noisily.

I have a nightmare vision of our whole act coming to a massive orgiastic climax on October 25th: Two thousand costumed freaks doing the schottische, in perfect unison, in front of the County Courthouse.

Rrin-saa said, the whiny voice oddly grave as, in unison, both Tampies traced a brief pattern in the air with their hands.

Inside the confines of an Earth-type structure, the immense army of Elatus Albus venusium stirred in unison.

We counted them loudly in Greek, popped back up in unison, and snapped back to attention.

And because he was Bruin Bear, that most trustworthy of animals, the rebels looked at each other, nodded more or less in unison, and followed the Bear up the grassy slope away from the wrecked Welcome Station.

Two mozos de campo, picturesque in great hats, with spurred bare heels, in white embroidered calzoneras, leather jackets and striped ponchos, rode ahead with carbines across their shoulders, swaying in unison to the pace of the horses.

The significance of the gesture was lost on me, but the other two watching sighed in unison and Cordoban sat back with a crestfallen expression.