More definitions of "focus":
- (noun): Maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea.
Example: "The controversy brought clearly into focus an important difference of opinion"
- (verb): Put (an image) into focus.
Example: "Please focus the image
Synonyms: focalize, focalise, sharpen
- (noun): Special emphasis attached to something.
Synonyms: stress
- (verb): Cause to converge on or toward a central point.
Example: "Focus the light on this image"
- (noun): A central point or locus of an infection in an organism.
Example: "The focus of infection"
Synonyms: focal point, nidus
- (noun): The concentration of attention or energy on something.
Example: "The focus of activity shifted to molecular biology"
Synonyms: focusing, focussing, direction, centering
- (verb): Direct one's attention on something.
Example: "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
Synonyms: concentrate, center, centre, pore, rivet
- (noun): A point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges.
Synonyms: focal point
- (noun): A fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section.
Famous quotes containing the word focus:
“Let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples of the earth—they are the focus of evil in the modern world.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“Why is it so difficult—so degradingly difficult—to bring the notion of Time into mental focus and keep it there for inspection? What an effort, what fumbling, what irritating fatigue!”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brain that is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious—to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.”
—Edward T. Hall (b. 1914)