[usu.  as adj. 
(音乐,节律中的)切分
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syncopated dance music .多切分音的舞曲。
 
shorten  (a word) by dropping sounds or letters in the middle, as in 
词中省略(如symbology表示symbolology或Gloster表示Gloucester)。
"early 17th cent.: from late Latin