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SYNCOPATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("syncopation" is a kind of...):
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
Domain category:
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
Derivation:
syncopate (modify the rhythm by stressing or accenting a weak beat)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("syncopation" is a kind of...):
beat; musical rhythm; rhythm (the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music)
Derivation:
syncopate (modify the rhythm by stressing or accenting a weak beat)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in 'fo'c'sle' for 'forecastle')
Synonyms:
syncopation; syncope
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("syncopation" is a kind of...):
articulation (the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech)
Domain category:
phonemics; phonology (the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes)
Derivation:
syncopate (omit a sound or letter in a word)
