equisonance

English

Etymology

From equi- + Latin sonans, present participle of sonare (“to sound”). Compare French équisonnance. See sonant.

Noun

equisonance (usually uncountable, plural equisonances)

  1. (music) An equal sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for equisonance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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