Emphasis

Emphasis or emphatic may refer to:

  • Emphasis (telecommunications), intentional alteration of the amplitude-vs.-frequency characteristics of the signal to reduce adverse effects of noise
  • Emphasis (typography), visual enhancement a part of a text to make it noticeable
  • Emphasis! (On Parenthesis), 2008 album by Stanton Moore Trio
  • "Emphasis/Who Wants to Live Forever", 2002 single by After Forever
  • Cultural emphasis, alleged tendency of a language's vocabulary to detail elements of the speakers' culture
  • Emphatic consonant, member of a phonological category of consonants in Semitic languages
  • Emphatic Diaglott, 1864 Bible translation by Benjamin Wilson
  • Emphatic (band), an American rock band

Famous quotes containing the word emphasis:

    “What your heart thinks great is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.”
    —Ruth Bader Ginsberg (b. 1933)

    “As our disorderly, competitive technological society is piling up its victims and constantly developing new problems of maladjustment, we must use our scientific knowledge to determine the cause and prevention of suffering rather than putting all our emphasis on its alleviation ...”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)