noun. The shortening of a word by omission of a sound, letter, or syllable from the middle of the word; for example, bos'n for boatswain.

noun. A brief loss of consciousness caused by inadequate blood flow to the brain.

noun. The contraction of a word by elision; an elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or a syllable from the middle of a word, as in ne'er for never. See also syncopation, syncopate. Compare apocope.

noun. In medicine, loss of consciousness from fall of blood-pressure and consequent cerebral anemia; fainting. It may be induced by cardiac weakness or inhibition, hemorrhage, or probably visceral vasomotor relaxation.

noun. A sudden pause or cessation; a suspension; temporary stop or inability to go on.

noun. In music: Same as syncopation.

noun. The combination of two voice-parts so that two or more tones in one coincide with a single tone in the other; simple figuration.

noun. In ancient prosody, omission, or apparent omission, of an arsis in the interior of a line.

noun. An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne'er for never, ev'ry for every.

noun. Same as Syncopation.

noun. A fainting, or swooning. See Fainting.

noun. A pause or cessation; suspension.

noun. A loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon.

noun. 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.

noun. A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.

noun. (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')

noun. a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain

"Near-syncope is light-headedness due to the same cause."

cat-syncope  local syncope  

articulation  loss of consciousness  metaplasm  

arrhythmia  asthenia  ataxia  bassline  cachexy  

KO  abbreviation  abridgment  abstract  andante tempo  

fainting  syncopation