(phonology) The loss or elision of a sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot to can't or the pronunciation of the -cester ending in placenames as -ster (for example, Leicester).
A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.
“After experiencing syncope during an intense workout, Sarah was promptly attended to by the trainer.”
“Patients with a family history of arrhythmia, syncope, or sudden death also may be at higher risk.”
“He was discharged the following afternoon with a presumptive diagnosis of vasovagal syncope, perhaps related to defecation.”
syncopation
(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