(n.) 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.
(n.) A single, unvaried.
(n.) Sounding alone.
(n.) Sounded alike in pitch; unisonant; unisonous; as, unison passages, in which two or more parts unite in coincident sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We have hard clinical evidence that if NHS staff feel valued that results in a positive outcome for patients," says Christina McAnea, head of health at Unison.
(2) Dave Prentis, Unison's general secretary Fighting talk at long last.
(3) Due to this aspect the ability of this activity to work in unison with DNA polymerase molecules in the process of DNA repair synthesis was investigated.
(4) Wearing royal blue cloaks with pointed hoods, the boys line up beside the road in a small village just outside the city of Ségou, chanting in unison.
(5) The YouGov poll, commissioned by the health union Unison, follows reports that three cabinet ministers supported an editorial on the influential Conservative Home website last week describing the NHS bill as "potentially fatal to the Conservative party's electoral prospects".
(6) But by Dave Prentis, the general secretary of Unison.
(7) January 6, 2014 Updated at 10.30am GMT 10.13am GMT The public services union Unison, which represents thousands of Environment Agency workers, has accused the government of putting public safety at risk by cutting the organisation's budget.
(8) But it's also arrogance, the idea that the world could heal itself by thinking, in unison, like Brand.
(9) There is the Usdaw reception in the Hilton on Sunday, the Communication Workers Union drinks on Monday and a Unison bash on Tuesday.
(10) "Millions of public sector workers will be left out in the cold," said Dave Prentis, leader of Unison.
(11) Mike Jeram, national officer at the Unison union, which represents workers at E.ON, said: "This is a devastating blow.
(12) Becca Kirkpatrick is a community organiser and chairs Unison’s West Midlands community branch.
(13) More than 1.1 million Unison workers, from healthcare assistants to paramedics and dinner ladies, could join walkouts on 30 November in a dispute over reforms to public sector pensions for health, education, local government and civil service employees.
(14) "Private health already has a small role in the NHS [providing 4% of services], but we don't want it to grow," said Karen Jennings a spokeswoman for Unison, the public services union.
(15) Around 43,000 Unison members – 28,000 as Labour party members in their own right and a further 15,000 who have signed up as registered supporters – can vote in the contest.
(16) Jessica Khoshooee (Unison) Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan • To complement the government’s proposed reforms, would it not be only fair for them to extend the legislation to shareholders in public companies?
(17) The clinical results indicated that Dispersalloy, Indiloy, a high-copper blend by Syntex, Cluster, and Unison had the least marginal failure.
(18) He wrote: "It is time for British politicians to say it loud and clear and in unison: we need bankers my friends.
(19) The only party that can win for working people is a strong and united Labour party.” The signatories to the statement included the general secretaries of Unite, Unison, the GMB and Ucatt.
(20) A memorandum of understanding between the college and Unison, made public at the insistence of the education committee, states that the £270 fee would be split 50-50 between the college and Unison.
Univocal
Definition:
(a.) Having one meaning only; -- contrasted with equivocal.
(a.) Having unison of sound, as the octave in music. See Unison, n., 2.
(n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.
(n.) Unequivocal; indubitable.
(n.) A generic term, or a term applicable in the same sense to all the species it embraces.
(n.) A word having but one meaning.
Example Sentences:
(1) Several reviewed works show that this appearance of chronic abcess is a common and univocal reaction to various pathogenic factors, such as bacteria and parasites.
(2) The response of the fungus to an increase in the number of larvae is not univocal : at 10 degrees C and 22 degrees C the nematode-trapping efficiency does not seem to depend upon the larval dnesity of the inoculum; at 15 degrees C, on the contrary, the nematodes are all the more trapped as their concentration is high.
(3) Les Revenentes (translated by Ian Monk as The Exeter Text) is a univocalism, a text which only uses one vowel, in this case "e".
(4) Results show that no general rules can be proposed to describe univocally the relation between the shape of isotherms and the nature of adsorbate-adsorbent system.
(5) The type of organization is not univocal and could perhaps depend on the number of patients to be cared for.
(6) The results show that although the lack of phase IV does not have a univocal signification (and this is a limit to the utilization of the closing volume alone as a detection test) the quantification of the closing volume brings, as the Ce, f relation does, an original element, but the evaluation of Ce, f is more difficult to realize in practice.
(7) A survey on perinatal handicaps must follow some standards: a) homogeneous population; b) univoc method of evaluation; c) 7 years follow-up; d) case control study.
(8) The analysis do not allow the univocal interpretation of the importance of organic brain changes in psychotic patients.
(9) A univocal attitude was suggested in what concerns their diagnosis and their treatment, both medical and surgical.
(10) It seems that, with our current knowledge, no univocal explanation is perfectly satisfactory.
(11) Results show an almost univocal interpretation of the images and also that the data inhomogeneity in the less reproducible diameters valuation is caused by real difficulty in the interpretation of the pictures.
(12) Ovarian ultrasonography is often difficult to explain, particularly because of the non-univocal macroscopic appearance of the ovaries.
(13) With regard to the second question XP seems to provide some support for various theories on carcinogenesis and, DNA repair defects may favour actinic carcinogenesis in a complex, non-univocous manner.
(14) This analysis is complex because two out of the three factors are not univocal in their definition (various composition and doses for pills, numerous histologic types of BBD).
(15) Studies with leukocytes gave more univocal results and the majority of these studies found an increase in intracellular Na+ in many genetic normotensives.
(16) Although somatostatin inhibits a variety of pituitary and non-pituitary hormones, not univocal data on its effects on ACTH release have been reported so far.
(17) Results demonstrate that the influence of compared histological methods on lectin binding is not univocal.
(18) A univocal disorder of dopaminergic activity in the nerve structures responsible for extra-pyramidal motility does not take into account the total phenomena seen in psychomotor neurological studies.
(19) the heat quantity generated by the tumour per untis of volume and time, computed from from intramammary temperature and thermal conductivity measurements made using of fluvographic needle probes), is typical of each cancer and re7ains remarkably constant during the growth in spite of themorphological and of the morphological and circulatory changes; b) the tumour doubling time tau2v (calculated from measurements of the tumour size effected at various stages of the evolution by assuming an exponential growth), is univocally related to 1 by a hyperbolic law so that the faster the tumour is growing themore heat generates; c) q is significanty higher and tau2v shorter in all cases where the histological examination has revealed signs of lymphatic dissemination (carcinomatous lymphangitis, lymph node metastases,...).
(20) After describing the phenomenon of sudden death both from a historical and literary viewpoint, the paper tackles the problem of its definition which is not yet univocal in the present literature, and identifies it mainly in its chronology.