syncopation

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

syncope

heart failure

Translations

syncope

síncopa

síncope

syncope

Synkope

Synkopierung

sincope

síncope

συγκοπή

hece yutumu

الإختزال

orta hecesi düşmüş sözcük

sincopat

anfallsartige, kurzdauernde Bewusstlosigkeit

Etymology

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