Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or process of bringing to a focus, or of placing in focus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of focalizing or bringing to a focus, or the state of being focalized.
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- noun literature The
perspective through which anarrative ispresented - noun optics Putting into
focus
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of bringing into focus
- noun the confinement of an infection to a limited area
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Examples
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If anything else, the quest for equity will lead to a final push in the long process of subsidy focalization, and will spell the end-game for a way of giving out public assistance that was blind to the needs of the recipient--a way that was intrinsically unfair.
Marcelo Giugale: Memos From the Developing World: The Human Opportunity Index Marcelo Giugale 2011
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Speculation may be noted in the view of the sun "When he nothing shines upon" (6); and the focalization through the mind of "the traveller in the dark" (9), and his use of the star to triangulate his position, which implies being able to jump to the view of the other.
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The only full-fledged law that I know of in the educative process is the law of habit building -- (1) focalization, (2) attentive repetition at intervals of increasing length, (3) permitting no exception -- and I am often told that this "law" is fallacious.
Craftsmanship in Teaching William Chandler Bagley 1910
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Photograph (Radial lines with strong focalization)
Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899
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It necessitates the focalization of all heavenly virtues.
The Promulgation of Universal Peace 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882
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Some persons appear to have a naturally poor focalization of the field of consciousness; and in such persons actions hang slack, and inhibitions seem to exert peculiarly easy sway.
Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals William James 1876
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The term attenuated focalization refers to a situation where point of view is limited, even if temporarily, to an impeded or distanced visual perspective.
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In the computer maps we generated, bisecting line focalization was observed for at least one coordinate of each system.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michel Laurent et al. 2010
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Because each region in this functional network recruits an increasingly more focal pattern (owing to decreased short-range connectivity), the univariate hemodynamic pattern in each area should be of increased focalization, while the correlations in activity among areas should be increasingly coherent.
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The term attenuated focalization refers to a situation where point of view is limited, even if temporarily, to an impeded or distanced visual perspective.
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