Usually means: Ends without a consonant sound.
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General (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. open syllable: Merriam-Webster
  2. open syllable: Wiktionary
  3. Open syllable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Open syllable: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Open syllable: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (open syllable)

noun:  (linguistics) A syllable that has no coda after its nucleus, and which hence ends in a vowel.

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