unison

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... And the lords of the surveillance state said in unison, "Long live the emergency!

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Quick take

corresponding exactly; "marching in unison"

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noun

corresponding exactly; "marching in unison"

noun

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

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for unison.

noun

corresponding exactly; "marching in unison"

noun

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

noun

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

Example sentences

... And the lords of the surveillance state said in unison, "Long live the emergency!

If you really pay attention to the news, it's eery how quickly they all start speaking in unison.

I once saw pretty much all 20 enemy ships nearest me suddenly turn towards me in near unison.

Eventually the whole system will synchronize, with all the metronomes ticking in unison.

Along those lines, there is a species of bees that works in unison to kill huge hornets by simply enveloping them and using body heat to cook them, which works thanks to a 4-degree difference in each species' maximum survivable temperature.

I'll use this as an opportunity to give a shout out for my new favorite password manager: pass [0]It uses gpg to encrypt passwords that are then stored locally, but can be synced using Dropbox, rsync, unison, etc. It is a command line program, so it doesn't have things like browser integration, but on a mac, a little Automator magic alleviates most of that pain.