The word emphasis, in addition to its main dictionary meaning, may have the following technical meanings.

• Emphasis, a notion from FM signal transmission
• Emphasis, in typography: visual enhancement a part of a text to make it noticeable
• In the grammatical terminology used in discussing the Semitic languages, "emphasis" refers to certain phonologically differentiated stop or fricative consonant sounds. The exact phonological realization of emphatic consonants varies between languages, but includes ejective consonants in Ethopian Semitic languages, and velarization/pharyngealization on Arabic. Emphatic consonants include ط ص ظ ض in Arabic, and ט צ ק in Hebrew.

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