síncope — meaning in English

English meaning

• fainting noun The act of briefly losing consciousness.
• syncope noun The dropping of a sound, often a vowel, from the middle of a word, sometimes losing a whole syllable.

Senses

síncope 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 — full definition

1. noun The dropping of a sound, often a vowel, from the middle of a word, sometimes losing a whole syllable.
2. noun A brief loss of consciousness caused by fainting.
3. noun A shift of musical stress onto a beat that is not usually accented.

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