Emphasis

"Emphatic" redirects here. For the term, see Empathic.

Emphasis or emphatic refers to a special importance or value given to something in order to highlight or command attention to it.

Communication

• Emphasis (telecommunications), intentional alteration of the amplitude-vs.-frequency characteristics of the signal meant to reduce adverse effects of noise
• Cultural emphasis, alleged tendency of a language's vocabulary to detail elements of the speakers' culture

Writing

• Emphasis (typography), visual enhancement a part of a text to make it noticeable
• Emphasis point, a typographic marking used in some east Asian languages to indicate emphasis

Linguistics

• Emphatic consonant, member of a phonological category of consonants in Semitic languages
• Prosodic stress, speaking an important word more loudly or slowly so that it stands out
• Do-support, a way to using additional words to call attention to important words
• Intensifier, a way to using additional words to call attention to important words

Programming Language

In computer language, the emphasis element is denoted by the tags <em> (open tag) and </em> (close tag). This HTML element stresses the text with emphasis. It can be used as an embedded element, where nesting indicates an increasing level of emphasis with each successive layer.

Music

• Emphasis! (On Parenthesis), 2008 album by the Stanton Moore Trio
• "Emphasis/Who Wants to Live Forever", 2002 single by After Forever
• Emphatic (band), American rock band

Other uses

• Emphatic Diaglott, 1864 Bible translation by Benjamin Wilson
• ST Emphatic

See also

• Prominence (disambiguation)
• Stress (disambiguation)
• Markedness, quality of a non-basic or less natural linguistic form