syncopation

Etymology
The phonological sense first attested in English in the 1530's, the musical sense in the 1590's.

Noun

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

Translations

 * Chinese: 切分/切分音
 * Finnish: synkopaatio
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: シンコペーション
 * Maori: taki aruaru
 * Portuguese:, sincopação
 * Swedish: ,


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