SYNCOPIC
- pertaining to a syncope (a contraction of a word by omitting sounds from the middle) [adj]
- SYNCOPE, the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle [adj]
- brief loss of consciousness associated with transient cerebral anemia, as in heart block, sudden lowering of the blood pressure, etc.; fainting
- the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er