Associations to the word «Syncopation»
Wiktionary
SYNCOPATION, noun. (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
SYNCOPATION, noun. (phonology) The loss of sounds in the middle of a word.
Dictionary definition
SYNCOPATION, noun. (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle').
SYNCOPATION, noun. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat.
SYNCOPATION, noun. Music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm.
Wise words
Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you
want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's
gone, gone forever.