Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being in unison; having the same degree of gravity or acuteness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being in unison; having the same degree of gravity or acuteness; sounded alike in pitch.
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- adjective Of a single
sound ; producing the same sound.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And as the birds breed in communities, often very populous, and all clamour together, the effect of so many powerful and unisonant voices is very grand; but it differs in the two species, owing to the quality of their voices being different; the storm of sound produced by the black-backs is deep and solemn, while that of the herring-gulls has a ringing sharpness almost metallic.
Afoot in England 1881
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Placing two unisonant forks near each other, sweeping the bow over one of them, and then quenching the agitated fork, the other continues to sound; this other can re-excite the former, and several transfers of sound between the two forks can be thus effected.
Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 John Tyndall 1856
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