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We found 66 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word focus:
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General dictionaries General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. focus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. focus: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  3. focus: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  4. Focus: Wiktionary [home, info]
  5. focus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  6. focus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  7. focus: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  8. FOCUS: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  9. focus: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  10. focus: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  11. focus: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  12. FOCUS (hardware), FOCUS (magazine), FOCUS (organization), FOCUS, Focus (DIY), Focus (Souls of Mischief album), Focus (Stan Getz album), Focus (album), Focus (band), Focus (board game), Focus (car), Focus (computing), Focus (earthquake), Focus (encyclopedia), Focus (geometry), Focus (jazz album), Focus (linguistics), Focus (optics), Focus (software): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  13. focus: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  14. Focus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. focus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  16. focus: Rhymezone [home, info]
  17. focus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  18. focus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  19. focus: Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
  20. Focus: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  21. focus: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  22. focus: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  23. focus: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  24. focus: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  25. focus: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. focus: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info]
  2. Focus: English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) [home, info]
  3. FOCUS: Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms [home, info]
  4. focus: Linguistic Glossary [home, info]
  5. Focus: Movie Terminology Glossary [home, info]
  6. focus: Literary Criticism [home, info]
  7. Focus: DAVID'S GLOSSARY OF THEATRE TERMS [home, info]
  8. Focus: Lexicon of Linguistics [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Focus: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  2. Focus: Management Dictionary [home, info]
  3. FOCUS: Total Quality Management Glossary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. FOCUS: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
  2. FOCUS, Focus, focus: CCI Computer [home, info]
  3. FOCUS: BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms [home, info]
  4. focus: CNET Internet Glossary [home, info]
  5. Focus (software), focus: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. focus: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. FOCUS, focus: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  3. focus: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary [home, info]
  4. Focus (software), focus: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. focus: Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols [home, info]
  2. FOCUS: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  3. FOCUS: AbbreviationZ [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Focus: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Focus: Glossary of Earthquake and Related Terminology [home, info]
  3. focus: Archaeology Wordsmith [home, info]
  4. focus: Earthquake Image Glossary [home, info]
  5. Focus: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info]
  6. Focus: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics [home, info]
  7. Focus (Earthquake): Field Trip to Mars [home, info]
  8. Focus: Lithics Terminology (Archaeology) [home, info]
  9. focus, focus, focus, focus: PlanetMath Encyclopedia [home, info]
  10. focus: Anthropology dictionary [home, info]
  11. focus: Natural History Terms [home, info]
  12. FOCUS: Zoom Astronomy Glossary [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Focus: Glossary of Film/Video Terms [home, info]
  2. Focus: Pest Management Glossary [home, info]
  3. Focus: PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography [home, info]
  4. focus: Television: Critical Methods and Applications [home, info]
  5. Focus: Electrical Engineering Glossary [home, info]

Quick definitions (focus)

noun:  maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system ("In focus")
noun:  maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea ("The controversy brought clearly into focus an important difference of opinion")
noun:  the concentration of attention or energy on something ("The focus of activity shifted to molecular biology")
noun:  a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section
noun:  a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges
noun:  a central point or locus of an infection in an organism ("The focus of infection")
noun:  special emphasis attached to something
verb:  cause to converge on or toward a central point ("Focus the light on this image")
verb:  put (an image) into focus ("Please focus the image")
verb:  become focussed or come into focus ("The light focused")
verb:  direct one's attention on something ("Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies")
verb:  bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions

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Words similar to focus:   center, centering, centre, concenter, concentrate, foci, focusable, focused, focuser, focuses, focusing, focusless, focussed, focussing, nidus, pore, rivet, sharpen, stress, focal point, more...


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