Usually means: Emphasis on normally weak beats.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. syncopation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. syncopation: Merriam-Webster
  3. syncopation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. syncopation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. syncopation: Collins English Dictionary
  6. syncopation: Vocabulary.com
  7. Syncopation, syncopation: Wordnik
  8. syncopation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. syncopation: Wiktionary
  10. syncopation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. syncopation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. syncopation: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. syncopation: Dictionary.com
  14. syncopation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Syncopation (dance), Syncopation (disambiguation), Syncopation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Syncopation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. syncopation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. syncopation: Rhymezone
  19. Syncopation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. syncopation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. syncopation: FreeDictionary.org
  22. syncopation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. syncopation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. SYNCOPATION: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. syncopation: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. syncopation: The Folk File

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See syncopations as well.)

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noun:  (linguistics, phonology) The contraction of a word by means of loss or omission of sounds or syllables in the middle thereof.
noun:  (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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