 
		
		Definition of syncope:
		
		
		(n) :
		
		a loss of 
consciousness when someone faints, a 
swoon; a missing sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing 
cannot to 
can't or Hawai'i from the root name Hawaiki
		
 
								
				"1973: the rapidly-whitening face, the miserable fixed smile, meant a syncope within the next few bars. -- Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise"