Definitions from Wiktionary (syncopation)
▸ 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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▸ 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.
Similar:
syncope,
contraction,
haplology,
aphoresis,
procope,
proparalepsis,
apophony,
epenthesis,
synaphea,
phonetic erosion,
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