syncopation

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (uncountable, usually) The contraction of a word by means of loss or omission of sounds or syllables in the middle thereof.
2. (uncountable, usually) The quality of a rhythm being somehow unexpected, in that it deviates from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter.

Sinonieme

syncope

heart failure

Vertalings

syncope

síncopa

síncope

syncope

Synkope

Synkopierung

sincope

síncope

συγκοπή

hece yutumu

الإختزال

orta hecesi düşmüş sözcük

sincopat

anfallsartige, kurzdauernde Bewusstlosigkeit

Etimologie (Engels)

From syncopate + -ion. The phonological sense was first attested in English in the 1530's, the musical sense in the 1590's.