de-emphasis

American  

[dee-em-fuh-sis] / diˈɛm fə sɪs /

Or deemphasis

noun

de-emphases plural

1. a reduction in emphasis.

   There has been de-emphasis on athletic activities at the school.

2. the act or process of de-emphasizing.

3. Electronics. a process of reducing the relative amplitude of certain frequencies in a signal that have been exaggerated by preemphasis, restoring the signal to its original form.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• de-emphases
  plural

Etymology

Origin of de-emphasis

First recorded in 1935–40; de- + emphasis