syncopation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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.

/ˌsɪŋ.kəˈpeɪ.ʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-syncopation.wav

syncopation syncopations

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

syncope

syncopational syncopationally

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