Emphasis or emphatic may refer to:
Communication
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Emphasis (telecommunications)
In signal processing, pre-emphasis is a technique to protect against anticipated noise and loss. The idea is to boost (and hence distort) the frequency range that is most susceptible to noise and loss beforehand, so that after a noisy and lossy ...
, intentional alteration of the amplitude-vs.-frequency characteristics of the signal meant to reduce adverse effects of noise
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Cultural emphasis, alleged tendency of a language's vocabulary to detail elements of the speakers' culture
Writing
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Emphasis (typography)
In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them. It is the equivalent of Stress (linguistics)#Prosodic stress, prosody stress in speech.
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, visual enhancement a part of a text to make it noticeable
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Emphasis point, a typographic marking used in some east Asian languages to indicate emphasis
Linguistics
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Emphatic consonant
In Semitic linguistics, an emphatic consonant is an obstruent consonant which originally contrasted, and often still contrasts, with an analogous voiced or voiceless obstruent by means of a secondary articulation. In specific Semitic languages, ...
, member of a phonological category of consonants in Semitic languages
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Prosodic stress
In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence. That emphasis is typically caused by such properties as i ...
, speaking an important word more loudly or slowly so that it stands out
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''Do''-support, a way to using additional words to call attention to important words
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Intensifier
In linguistics, an intensifier (abbreviated ) is a lexical category (but ''not'' a traditional part of speech) for a modifier that makes no contribution to the propositional meaning of a clause but serves to enhance and give additional emotional ...
, a way to using additional words to call attention to important words
Music
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Emphasis! (On Parenthesis)
''Emphasis! (On Parenthesis)'' is an album by the Stanton Moore Trio, released on April 22, 2008. Organist Robert Walter and guitarist Will Bernard, both of whom played with Moore on his previous solo album, '' III'', are featured on the albu ...
'', 2008 album by the Stanton Moore Trio
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Emphasis/Who Wants to Live Forever", 2002 single by After Forever
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Emphatic (band)
Emphatic was an American hard rock band from Omaha, founded by guitarist-songwriter Justin McCain in 2004. Their major label debut record ''Damage'' for Atlantic reached No. 9 on Billboard Top Heatseekers chart in 2011. The band's second album ' ...
, American rock band
Other uses
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Emphatic Diaglott
The ''Emphatic Diaglott'' is a diaglot, or two-language polyglot translation, of the New Testament by Benjamin Wilson, first published in 1864. It is an interlinear translation with the original Greek text and a word-for-word English translati ...
'', 1864 Bible translation by Benjamin Wilson
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ST ''Emphatic''
See also
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Prominence (disambiguation)
Prominence in topography is a measure of the independence of a summit.
Prominence or Prominent may also refer to:
*Celebrity, fame and public attention accorded by the mass media to individuals or groups
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Stress (disambiguation)
Stress may refer to:
Science and medicine
* Stress (biology), an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition
* Stress (linguistics), relative emphasis or prominence given to a syllable in a word, or to a word in a phra ...
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Markedness
In linguistics and social sciences, markedness is the state of standing out as nontypical or divergent as opposed to regular or common. In a marked–unmarked relation, one term of an opposition is the broader, dominant one. The dominant defau ...
, quality of a non-basic or less natural linguistic form
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