syncopation

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syncopation

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Etymology 1

From syncopate +‎ -ion. The phonological sense was first attested in English in the 1530's, the musical sense in the 1590's.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɪŋ.kəˈpeɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

syncopation (usually uncountable, plural syncopations)

1. (linguistics, phonology) The contraction of a word by means of loss or omission of sounds or syllables in the middle thereof.
2. (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.

Derived terms

• syncopational
• syncopationally

Related terms

• syncope

Translations

rhythm sync

Chinese: 切分/切分音 (qiēfēn/qiēfēnyīn) 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: synkopering (sv) c, synkop (sv) c

rhythm sync

Etymology 2 From syncopate +‎ -ion. The phonological sense was first attested in English in the 1530's, the musical sense in the 1590's. Pronunciation IPA(key): /ˌsɪŋ.kəˈpeɪ.ʃən/ Audio (Southern England): (file) 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. Derived terms syncopational syncopationally Related terms syncope Translations rhythm sync Chinese: 切分/切分音 (qiēfēn/qiēfēnyīn) 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: synkopering (sv) c, synkop (sv) c phonology: loss of sounds Chinese: Mandarin: 字中音省略 (zìzhōngyīnshěnglüè) Finnish: synkopee (fi) Hungarian: szinkópa (hu) Swedish: synkope (sv) c