syncope — meaning in English

English meaning

• fainting noun The act of briefly losing consciousness.
• syncope noun The elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable.

Senses

syncope is used for these senses in English:

• fainting An act of collapsing into a state of temporary unconsciousness.
• syncopation (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.
• syncope (linguistics, phonology, prosody) The elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable.
• syncope (music) A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.

syncope — full definition

1. noun The elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable.
2. noun A loss of consciousness when fainting.
3. noun A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.

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