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syncope noun

  /ˈsɪŋ.kə.pi/
  • (linguistics, phonology, prosody) The elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable.
 sincope

syncopation noun

  /ˌsɪŋ.kəˈpeɪ.ʃən/
  • (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.
 sincope

syncopation

contrattempo

syncopated

sincopato

syncopal adjective

sincopale

syncopate verb

  • (transitive, music) to stress or accentuate the weak beat of a rhythm; to use syncopation
 sincopare
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