syncopation
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English
Etymology
From syncopate + -ion. The phonological sense was first attested in English in the 1530's, the musical sense in the 1590's.
Pronunciation
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Noun
syncopation (usually uncountable, plural syncopations)
- (linguistics, phonology) The contraction of a word by means of loss or omission of sounds or syllables in the middle thereof.
- (music) 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.
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Translations
rhythm quality
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