syncopation

English

Etymology

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

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.

Derived terms

Related terms

syncope

Translations

rhythm quality

Chinese: 切分/切分音
Finnish: synkopaatio
French: syncopation (fr) f
Hungarian: szinkópa (hu)
Japanese: シンコペーション (shinkopēshon)
Maori: taki aruaru
Portuguese: síncope (pt) f, sincopação f
Swedish: synkopering (sv) c, synkop (sv) c

phonology: loss of sounds

Finnish: synkopee (fi)
Hungarian: szinkópa (hu)
Swedish: synkope (sv) c

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