[koun-ter-point] 
| 1. | Music. the art of combining melodies. |
| 2. | Music. the texture resulting from the combining of individual melodic lines. |
| 3. | a melody composed to be combined with another melody. |
| 4. | Also called counterpoint rhythm. Prosody. syncopation (def. 2). |
| 5. | any element that is juxtaposed and contrasted with another. |
| 6. | to emphasize or clarify by contrast or juxtaposition. |
[sing-kuh-pey-shuh
n, sin-] | 1. | Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats. |
| 2. | something, as a rhythm or a passage of music, that is syncopated. |
| 3. | Also called counterpoint, counterpoint rhythm. Prosody. the use of rhetorical stress at variance with the metrical stress of a line of verse, as the stress on and and of in Come praise Colonus' horses and come praise/The wine-dark of the wood's intricacies. |
| 4. | Grammar. syncope. |