syncopated


 * syn⋅co⋅pa⋅tion**

 / ˌsɪŋkəˈpeɪʃən, ˌsɪn- /    **//–noun//**
 * 1. || Music . a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats. ||


 * 2. || something, as a rhythm or a passage of music, that is syncopated. ||


 * 3. || Also called counterpoint, counterpoint rhythm.  Prosody . the use of rhetorical stress at variance with the metrical stress of a line of verse, as the stress on and and of in Come praise Colonus' horses and come praise/The wine-dark of the wood's intricacies. ||


 * 4. || Grammar . syncope. ||