Definition von focus

Häufigkeit

focus

(foʊkəs )

Wortformen:plural foci (foʊsaɪ ), plural, 3rd person singular present tense focuses , present participle focusing , past tense, past participle focused language note: The spellings focusses, focussing, focussed are also used. The plural of the noun can be either foci or focuses.

1. Verb

If you focus on a particular topic or if your attention is focused on it, you concentrate on it and think about it, discuss it, or deal with it, rather than dealing with other topics.

The research effort has focused on tracing the effects of growing levels of five compounds. [VERB on noun]

He is currently focusing on assessment and development. [VERB + on]

Today he was able to focus his message exclusively on the economy. [VERB noun on noun]

Many of the papers focus their attention on the controversy surrounding the Foreign Secretary. [VERB noun + on]

2. zählbares Substantiv [usually singular]

The focus of something is the main topic or main thing that it is concerned with.

The U.N.'s role in promoting peace is increasingly the focus of international attention.

The new system is the focus of controversy. [+ of]

Her children are the main focus of her life. [+ of]

Synonyme:centre, focal point, central point, core Weitere Synonyme von focus

3. zählbares Substantiv [usually singular]

Your focus on something is the special attention that you pay it.

He said his sudden focus on foreign policy was not motivated by presidential politics.

The report's focus is on how technology affects human life rather than business.

IBM has also shifted its focus from mainframes to personal computers.

Synonyme:attention, concern, priority, concentration Weitere Synonyme von focus

4. unzählbares Substantiv

If you say that something has a focus, you mean that you can see a purpose in it.

Somehow, though, their latest album has a focus that the others have lacked.

Suddenly all of the seemingly isolated examples took on a meaningful focus.

5. Verb

If you focus your eyes or if your eyes focus, your eyes adjust so that you can clearly see the thing that you want to look at. If you focus a camera, telescope, or other instrument, you adjust it so that you can see clearly through it.

Kelly couldn't focus his eyes well enough to tell if the figure was male or female. [VERB noun]

His eyes slowly began to focus on what looked like a small dark ball. [VERB + on]

He found the binoculars and focused them on the boat. [VERB noun + on]

Had she kept the camera focused on the river bank she might have captured a vital scene. [VERB-ed]

[Also VERB]

Synonyme:fix, train, direct, aim Weitere Synonyme von focus

6. unzählbares Substantiv

You use focus to refer to the fact of adjusting your eyes or a camera, telescope, or other instrument, and to the degree to which you can see clearly.

His focus switched to the little white ball.

Together these factors determine the depth of focus.

It has no manual focus facility.

7. Verb

If you focus rays of light on a particular point, you pass them through a lens or reflect them from a mirror so that they meet at that point.

Magnetic coils focus the electron beams into fine spots. [VERB noun preposition]

8. zählbares Substantiv

The focus of a number of rays or lines is the point at which they meet.

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Weitere Synonyme von focus

Video: pronunciation of 'focus'

Häufigkeit

focus in American

(ˈfoʊkəs ; fōˈkəs)

SubstantivWortformen:plural ˈfocuses or ˈfoˌci (ˈfoʊˌsaɪ ; fōˈsīˌ)

the point where rays of light, heat, etc. or waves of sound come together, or from which they spread or seem to spread; specif., the point where rays of light reflected by a mirror or refracted by a lens meet (called real focus) or the point where they would meet if prolonged backward through the lens or mirror (called virtual focus)

focal length

an adjustment of the focal length to make a clear image

to bring a camera into focus

any center of activity, attention, etc.

a part of the body where a disease process, as an infection, tumor, etc., is localized or most active

the starting point of an earthquake

7. Ancient Mathematics

either of the two fixed points used in determining an ellipse

any analogous point for a parabola or hyperbola

focus in British

(ˈfəʊkəs )

Substantiv plural -cuses or -ci (-saɪ, -kaɪ, -kiː)

a point of convergence of light or other electromagnetic radiation, particles, sound waves, etc, or a point from which they appear to diverge

2. another name for focal point (sense 1), focal length

3. optics

the state of an optical image when it is distinct and clearly defined or the state of an instrument producing this image

the picture is in focus

the telescope is out of focus

a point upon which attention, activity, etc, is directed or concentrated

5. geometry

a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section, used when defining its eccentricity

the point beneath the earth's surface at which an earthquake or underground nuclear explosion originates

Compare epicentre

7. pathology

the main site of an infection or a localized region of diseased tissue

Verb -cuses, -cusing, -cused, -cusses, -cussing or -cussed

to bring or come to a focus or into focus

9. (transitive; often foll by on)

to fix attention (on); concentrate

Abgeleitete Formen

focusable (ˈfocusable)

Adjektiv

focuser (ˈfocuser)

Substantiv

Wortherkunft von focus

C17: via New Latin from Latin: hearth, fireplace

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