Usually means: Center of interest or activity.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word focal point:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. focal point: Merriam-Webster
  2. focal point: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. focal point: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. focal point: Collins English Dictionary
  5. focal point: Vocabulary.com
  6. focal point: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. focal point: Wiktionary
  8. focal point: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. focal point: Dictionary.com
  10. Focal Point (album), Focal Point (band), Focal point (disambiguation), Focal point (game theory), Focal point: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. focal point: Rhymezone
  12. focal point: FreeDictionary.org
  13. focal point: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. focal point: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. focal point: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. focal point: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. focal point: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. focal point: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. focal point: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. focal point: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  2. focal point: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. Focal point: Physic and Astronomy Glossary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Focal point: Chess Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Focal Point: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  2. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  3. focal point: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

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Definitions from Wiktionary (focal point)

noun:  (optics) A focus; a point at which rays of light or other radiation converge.
noun:  The centre of any activity.
noun:  (art) A feature that attracts particular attention.
noun:  (game theory) A solution that people will tend to use in the absence of communication, because it seems natural, special, or relevant.

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