Syncope (album)
WordNet

noun


(1)   (phonology) the loss of sounds in the interior of a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')
(2)   A spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
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Etymology


, from , from + .

Noun



  1. A loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon.
    • 1973: the rapidly-whitening face, the miserable fixed smile, meant a syncope within the next few bars. — Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise
  2. A missing sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot to can't or the pronunciation of placenames in -cester (e.g. Leicester) as -ster.
  3. A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.

Noun



  1. fainting (an act of collapsing to a state to temporary unconsciousness)
 
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