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verbbecome focussed or come into focusOpposite:
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nounthe concentration of attention or energy on something
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verbbring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions
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nounspecial emphasis attached to something
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nouna central point or locus of an infection in an organism
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nouna point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges
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verbput (an image) into focusOpposite:
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nouna fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic sectiontype of:
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verbcause to converge on or toward a central pointOpposite:type of:
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nounmaximum clarity or distinctness of an idea
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nounmaximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical systemtype of:
Examples of focus
- "The light focused"
- "the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology"
- "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
- "the focus of infection"
- "Please focus the image; we cannot enjoy the movie"
- "the controversy brought clearly into focus an important difference of opinion"
- "in focus"
- "out of focus"