syncope

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