syncopationWiktionary 原文构词拆分syncopate词根/词干+-ion后缀(no longer productive) An action or process, or the result of an action or process. · (no longer productive) A state or condition.原始词根原始印欧语 *(s)kep-词源说明From syncopate + -ion. The phonological sense was first attested in English in the 1530's, the musical sense in the 1590's.释义（英文）名词 Noun(linguistics, phonology) The contraction of a word by means of loss or omission of sounds or syllables in the middle thereof.(music) The quality of a rhythm being somehow unexpected, in that it deviates from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter