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[ noun ] the concentration of attention or energy on something

Examples

"the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology" "he had no direction in his life"

Used in print

(Christopher Davis, First Family....)

He breathed now with his mouth open , showing a whitely curving section of lower teeth ; he kept his eyes , with their puffed blurred lids , always lowered , though not , apparently , focusing .

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[ noun ] the act of bringing into focus
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