Emphasis or emphatic may refer to:
Communication
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Emphasis (telecommunications)
Typically, prior to some process, such as transmission over cable, or recording to phonograph record or tape, the input frequency range most susceptible to noise is boosted. This is referred to as "pre-emphasis"before the process the signal will u ...
, intentional alteration of the amplitude-vs.-frequency characteristics of the signal meant to reduce adverse effects of noise
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Cultural emphasis
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Cultural emphasis is an important aspect of a culture which is often reflected though language and, more specifically, vocabulary. This means that the vocabulary people use in a culture indicates what is important to that group of people. ...
, 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 prosody stress in speech.
Methods and use
The most common methods in ...
, visual enhancement a part of a text to make it noticeable
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Emphasis point
The emphasis mark or emphasis dot is a typographic marking used in some East Asian languages to indicate emphasis. The markings takes in many forms like, a dot or a bullet, a circle, or a triangle. It was used more traditionally, but nowadays, ...
, a typographic marking used in some east Asian languages to indicate emphasis
Linguistics
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Emphatic consonant, 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, 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 album ...
'', 2008 album by the Stanton Moore Trio
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Emphasis/Who Wants to Live Forever
''Decipher'' is the second album by Dutch symphonic metal band After Forever, released on 27 December 2001. In this album, the band make use of live classical instruments and a complete choir to back up the soprano voice of lead singer Floor J ...
", 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 translatio ...
'', 1864 Bible translation by Benjamin Wilson
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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)
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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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