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

• Syncopation (disambiguation)