Usually means: Concentration on a specific task.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. focus: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. focus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. focus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. focus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. focus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Focus, focus: Wordnik
  7. focus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. focus: Wiktionary
  9. focus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. focus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. focus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. FOCUS: Dictionary.com
  13. focus: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. FOCUS, Focus (Ariana Grande song), Focus (Arthur Blythe album), Focus (Bazzi song), Focus (Bill Hardman album), Focus (Chico Freeman album), Focus (Cynic album), Focus (DIY), Focus (Diaura album), Focus (EP), Focus (German magazine), Focus (H.E.R. song), Focus (Holly Starr album), Focus (Italian magazine), Focus (Souls of Mischief album), Focus (Stan Getz album), Focus (Ukrainian magazine), Focus (album), Focus (band), Focus (board game), Focus (cognitive process), Focus (computing), Focus (disambiguation), Focus (earthquake), Focus (film), Focus (geometry), Focus (grammar), Focus (linguistics), Focus (music), Focus (novel), Focus (optics), Focus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Focus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. focus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. focus: Rhymezone
  18. focus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. focus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. focus: Free Dictionary
  21. focus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. focus: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. focus: Online Etymology Dictionary

Art (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. focus: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  4. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  7. Focus: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Focus: Management Dictionary
  3. Focus (optics), Focus (software), focus: Legal dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. FOCUS: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. FOCUS, Focus, focus: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Focus (earthquake), Focus (optics), Focus (software), focus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. focus: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  4. Focus (software), focus: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. FOCUS: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. focus: Idioms

Science (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. Focus: Glossary of Earthquake and Related Terminology
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Focus: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  4. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Focus: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  6. Focus: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  7. Field Trip to Mars (No longer online)
  8. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  9. focus, focus, focus, focus: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  10. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  11. focus: Natural History Terms
  12. FOCUS: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. focus, focus: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. F.O.C.U.S, focus: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Focus: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Focus: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  3. Glossary of Film/Video Terms (No longer online)
  4. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  5. focus: Television: Critical Methods and Applications
  6. Electrical Engineering Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, optics) A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.
noun:  (countable, geometry) A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge.
noun:  (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.
noun:  (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The quality of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.
noun:  (uncountable) Concentration of attention.
noun:  (countable) Something to which activity, attention or interest is primarily directed.
noun:  (countable, seismology) The exact point of where an earthquake occurs, in three dimensions (underneath the epicentre).
noun:  (graphical user interface) The status of being the currently active element in a user interface, often indicated by a visual highlight.
noun:  (linguistics) The most important word or phrase in a sentence or passage, or the one that imparts information.
noun:  An object used in casting a magic spell.
noun:  (countable, ichthyology) A part of a fish's scale.
noun:  The point where a young fish's scale begins to develop from.
noun:  The centre of an older fish's scale.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point.
verb:  (transitive, optics) To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the focal plane.
verb:  (intransitive, optics, of a lens, optical instrument, etc.) To adjust itself or be adjusted such that light from a scene converges appropriately to create a clear image.
verb:  (transitive) To direct attention, effort, or energy to a particular audience or task.
verb:  (intransitive) To concentrate one’s attention.
verb:  (intransitive, followed by on or upon) To concentrate one's attention on something; to have as one's central point of interest, concern, etc.
verb:  (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus to (a visual element), so that it receives subsequent input.
verb:  (accounting, formerly) To aggregate figures of accounts.

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