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syncopation

English

  1. 🔊 music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm
  2. 🔊 a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
  3. 🔊 (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')

Spanish

  1. 🔊 sincopación syncopation

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