syncopation

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

syncope

Synonymes

syncope

heart failure

Traductions

síncopa

síncope

syncope

Synkope

Synkopierung

síncope

sincope

συγκοπή

içses düşmesi

hece yutumu

الإختزال

orta hecesi düşmüş sözcük

sincopat

anfallsartige, kurzdauernde Bewusstlosigkeit

Étymologie (Anglais)

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