Definitions for focuses

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focuses fo·cus

Spelling: [foh-kuh s]

IPA: /ˈfoʊ kəs/

Focuses is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in focuses (cefossu).

Definitions for focuses

noun

1. a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity:
2. Physics. a point at which rays of light, heat, or other radiation meet after being refracted or reflected.
3. Optics. the focal point of a lens, on which rays converge or from which they deviate. the focal length of a lens; the distance from a focal point to a corresponding principal plane. the clear and sharply defined condition of an image. the position of a viewed object or the adjustment of an optical device necessary to produce a clear image:
4. Geometry. (of a conic section) a point having the property that the distances from any point on a curve to it and to a fixed line have a constant ratio for all points on the curve.
5. Geology. the point of origin of an earthquake.
6. Pathology. the primary center from which a disease develops or in which it localizes.

verb (used with object)

1. to bring to a focus or into focus; cause to converge on a perceived point:
2. to concentrate:

verb (used without object)

1. to be or become focused:
2. to direct one's attention or efforts:

Origin of focuses

1635-45; Latin: fireplace, hearth

Examples for focuses

Instead, Cooke focuses mainly on her heavy drinking, because it had a significant effect on her performances.

The premise comes and goes, however, and even the rest of “Clouds” focuses more on sensuality than sci-fi.

Such a day does not often come upon the river, but if it does, the deep channel of the Isisi focuses all the joy of it.

He also recently launched Purple Travel, which focuses on exploring the planet through travel experiences.

She focuses a lot of her time on after school activities, such as student council and the yearbook committee.

The peculiarity of these focuses of moral putrefaction is, to reduce all the races of mankind to the same level.

The focuses of most earthquakes are concentrated in the crust and upper mantle.

It focuses all the impulses towards good and concentrates them.

The only real places of meeting, or focuses of news, are the cafés.

Obama has the authority on immigration and Rick Santorum focuses on the wrong numbers.