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UK
/fˈəʊkəsd/
]
[ US /ˈfoʊkəst, ˈfoʊkɪst/ ]
[ US /ˈfoʊkəst, ˈfoʊkɪst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- being in focus or brought into focus
- of an optical system (e.g. eye or opera glasses) adjusted to produce a clear image
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(of light rays) converging on a point
focused light rays can set something afire
How To Use focused In A Sentence
- Over this long weekend in Melbourne I've been researching Indian mid-tier (50-1000 employees skewed towards 5yrs+ comp sci education/experience), good at open source, B2C, web2: Not the big BPO/B2B focused Satyams, Wipros and Tatas, or the elance $1000 dodgey script dudes. How Will the Indians Fare at The Web 2.0 World Cup Cricket ?
- Jeannine's work became focused on freebirth - birth unassisted by a paid professional.
- But the main thrust of correspondence focused on the future of a particular medical practice.
- Gadafy's striking non-endorsement of the Democratic candidate focused in part on Obama's pledge of "unshakeable" support for Israel, which caused dismay, if not surprise, across the Arab and Muslim worlds last week. Obama Taking Over Democratic National Committee Partly To Avoid Kerry's Fate
- Much of the defendant's evidence focused on his long-term condition myasthenia gravis. Times, Sunday Times
- The demand for land focused hostile attention upon the graziers, who reared cattle and sheep commercially on extensive pastoral holdings.
- ( "NNE"), a portfolio company of Metalmark Capital focused on natural gas opportunities in the Marcellus Shale ( "Marcellus"), announced today that B.J. Carney, formerly Geoscience Coordinator, Marcellus Shale at Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK), has been named Vice President of Geoscience for NNE. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
- A typical write-up of last August's vote in the New York Times, for example, focused on the way the president had "outmaneuvered" the Democrats. Why Obama's Support For FISA Cave-In Is Such A Downer
- When she founded NYBDC in 1976, it was an academic discipline focused on reconstructing the steps of old dances, their names — among them the minuet and gavotte — familiar from the music of Bach and Handel. Stepping Through History
- The topic of this thesis is focused on the DOP technique applied to monitor the PMD of the optical link and the impact of the PMD on the PM system.