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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Unison \U"ni*son\ (?; 277), adjective [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Unison \U"ni*son\ (?; 277), noun [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unison
noun
1: 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"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
137 Moby Thesaurus words for "unison": acclamation, accompaniment, accord, accordance, affinity, agape, agreement, agreement of all, amity, assent, attune, attunement, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, cantata, caritas, cement of friendship, charity, chime, chiming, choral singing, chorus, coetaneity, coetaneousness, coevalneity, coevalness, coexistence, coherence, coincidence, common assent, common consent, communion, community, community of interests, compatibility, concentus, concert, concomitance, concord, concordance, concurrence, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, consensus, consensus gentium, consensus of opinion, consensus omnium, consent, consentaneity, consistency, consonance, consonancy, consonant, consort, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, cooperation, correspondence, diapason, empathy, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps, euphony, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, frictionlessness, general acclamation, general agreement, general consent, general voice, glee, good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmonics, harmonious, harmony, heavy harmony, homophony, identity, in harmony, intersection, isochronism, kinship, like-mindedness, love, madrigal, madrigaletto, meeting of minds, monochord, monody, mutual understanding, mutuality, one accord, one voice, oneness, oratorio, overlap, parallelism, peace, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, same mind, self-consistency, sharing, simultaneity, single voice, solidarity, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, sync, synchronism, synchronization, tally, team spirit, three-part harmony, timing, together, total agreement, tune, unanimity, unanimousness, understanding, uniformity, union, unisonance, unity, universal agreement
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