Syncope

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Syncope may refer to:

  • Syncope (medicine), also known as fainting or passing out, a loss of consciousness
  • Syncope (phonology), the loss of one or more sounds, particularly an unstressed vowel, from the interior of a word
  • Syncopation, a musical effect caused by off-beat or otherwise unexpected rhythms
  • Syncopation (dance), or syncopated step, a step on an unstressed beat
  • Suspension, in music
  • Syncope (frog), a genus of microhylidae frogs
  • Syncopy Inc., a British film production company

See also

  • Syncopation (disambiguation)
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