n. (also syncopation The loss of a segment from the interior of a word. The term is most commonly applied to vowel loss, as in the common British pronunciations of medicine as /‘medsin/ and of library as /‘laibri/, but is sometimes extended...

Loss of an unstressed vowel (or, more rarely, a consonant) within a word. Compare, for example, two common pronunciations of laboratory: Am. Eng. and Brit. Eng. ( apocope). language...

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In phonetics, syncope /ˈsɪŋ.kə.pi:/ (Greek syn- + kopein “to strike”) is the loss of one or more sounds from the interior of a word; especially, the loss of an unstressed...