syncopation

syncopation

English

Etymology

syncopate +‎ -ion

Noun

syncopation (usually uncountable, plural syncopations)

1. (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
2. (phonology) The loss of sounds in the middle of a word.

Derived terms

• syncopational
• syncopationally

Related terms

• syncope

Translations

rhythm quality

Finnish: synkopaatio French: syncopation (fr) f Hungarian: szinkópa (hu) Japanese: シンコペーション (shinkopēshon)

Maori: taki aruaru Portuguese: síncope (pt) f, sincopação f Swedish: synkop (sv) c

phonology: loss of sounds

Finnish: synkopee (fi)