Emphasis or emphatic may refer to:
Communication
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Emphasis (telecommunications), 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.
Methods and ...
, 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
* ''
Emphasis! (On Parenthesis)'', 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), American rock band
Other uses
* ''
Emphatic Diaglott'', 1864 Bible translation by Benjamin Wilson
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ST ''Emphatic''
See also
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Prominence (disambiguation)
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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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