Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Syncopation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Syncopation \Syn`co*pa"tion\, n.
1. (Gram.) The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word
by taking one or more letters or syllables from the
middle; syncope.
2. (Mus.) The act of syncopating; a peculiar figure of
rhythm, or rhythmical alteration, which consists in
welding into one tone the second half of one beat with the
first half of the beat which follows.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
syncopation
n 1: the loss of sounds in the interior of a word (as in
`fo'c'sle' for `forecastle') [syn: {syncope}]
2: a musical rhythm accenting a weak beat
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