SYNCOPATION

syncopation

(noun) music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm

syncopation

(noun) a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat

syncope, syncopation

(noun) (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in ‘fo’c’sle’ for ‘forecastle’)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

syncopation (usually uncountable, plural syncopations)

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

(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.

Source: Wiktionary

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Syn`co*pa"tion, n.

1. (Gram.)

Definition: The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.

2. (Mus.)

Definition: The act of syncopating; a peculiar figure of rhythm, or rhythmical alteration, which consists in welding into one tone the second half of one beat with the first half of the beat which follows.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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