syncopation

Plural: syncopations

Noun

• (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')
• a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
• music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm
• The contraction of a word by means of loss or omission of sounds or syllables in the middle thereof.
• 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

Related Words

syncope