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

Translations

a rhythm type

• Finnish: synkooppi (fi)
• Hungarian: szinkópa (hu)

• Japanese: シンコペーション (shinkopēshon)