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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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun literature The perspective through which a narrative is presented
  • 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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