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de-emphasis

noun
/diːˈɛmfəsɪs/UK

Etymology

From de- + emphasis.

  1. derived from ἔμφασις
  2. borrowed from emphasis
  3. prefixed as de-emphasis — “de + emphasis”

Definitions

  1. A reduction in emphasis.

  2. A signal distortion, carried out at a receiver, in order to undo the effects of…

    A signal distortion, carried out at a receiver, in order to undo the effects of pre-emphasis at the transmitter.

  3. A reduction of the level of all bits except the first one after a transition.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for de-emphasis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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