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Emphasis or emphatic may refer to: CommunicationEmphasis (telecommunications), intentional alteration of the amplitude-vs.-frequency characteristics of the signal meant to reduce adverse effects of noiseCultural emphasis, alleged tendency of a language's vocabulary to detail elements of the speakers' cultureWritingEmphasis (typography), visual enhancement a part of a text to make it noticeableEmphasis point, a typographic marking used in some east Asian languages to indicate emphasisLinguisticsEmphatic consonant, member of a phonological category of consonants in Semitic languagesProsodic stress, speaking an important word more loudly or slowly so that it stands outDo-support, a way of using additional words to call attention to important wordsIntensifier, a way of using additional words to call attention to important wordsMusicEmphasis!

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