Noun syncope has 2 senses
  1. faint, swoon, syncope, deliquium - a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
    --1 is a kind of loss of consciousness
  2. syncope, syncopation - (phonology) the loss of sounds in the interior of a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')
    --2 is a kind of articulation
    Derived form: verb syncopate1
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