Usually means: Temporary loss of consciousness, fainting.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. syncope: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. syncope: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. syncope: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. syncope: Collins English Dictionary
  5. syncope: Vocabulary.com
  6. Syncope, syncope: Wordnik
  7. syncope: Wiktionary
  8. syncope: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. syncope: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. syncope: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. syncope: Dictionary.com
  12. syncope: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Syncope (album), Syncope (disambiguation), Syncope (medicine), Syncope (phonetics), Syncope (phonology), Syncope: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Syncope: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. syncope: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. syncope: Rhymezone
  17. Syncope: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. syncope: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. syncope: Free Dictionary
  20. syncope: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. syncope: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. syncope: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. syncope: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Syncope: Lexicon of Linguistics
  3. SYNCOPE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Syncope (medicine), syncope: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Syncope: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Syncope: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  8. Disorder Index (No longer online)
  9. syncope: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  10. Syncope (medicine), syncope: Medical dictionary
  11. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  12. Syncope: Drug Medical Dictionary
  13. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. syncope: A Word A Day

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Syncope: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary

(Note: See syncopal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (syncope)

noun:  (linguistics, phonology, prosody) The elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable.
noun:  (biology, medicine) A loss of consciousness when someone faints.
noun:  (music) A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.

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