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unison noun [ ˈjuːnɪs(ə)n ]

• simultaneous performance or utterance of action or speech.
• "‘Yes, sir,’ said the girls in unison"
Similar: simultaneously, at (one and) the same time, (all) at once, at the same moment, (all) together, as one, in concert, in chorus,
• coincidence in pitch of sounds or notes.
• "the flutes play in unison with the violas"

unison adjective

• performed in unison.
• "unison congregational singing"
Origin: late Middle English (in unison (sense 2 of the noun)): from Old French, or from late Latin unisonus, from Latin uni- ‘one’ + sonus ‘sound’.


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