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
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?