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Definition: Focusing |
FocusingNoun1. The concentration of attention or energy on something; "the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology". 2. The act of bringing into focus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "focusing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | Adjusting the elements of an optical system, or the position of the image surface or screen in order to create or obtain a sharply defined image, or to obtain a desired relationship between object distance and image distance ; process of adjusting a camera, telescope or the like so as to ensure that the image it provides is sharp. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The process of controlling the convergence of an electron beam so that the minimum or optimum cross-section is obtained at a given point. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Industry | The rays of light that form the image are correctly converged in the same plane. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | A method of making beams of radiation converge on a target such as the face of a TV tube. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Lenses and mirrors
The focus of a lens or parabolic mirror is the point onto which collimated light parallel to the axis is focused. The focus of an elliptic mirror is either of two points such that light from one converges on the other. The focus of a hyperbolic mirror is either of two points such that light from one is reflected as if it came from the other.
Geometry
In an ellipse, foci are the two "off-center" points.See also Focus (band).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Focus."
Synonyms: FocusingSynonyms: centering (n), focalisation (n), focalization (n), focus (n), focussing (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Focusing |
| English words defined with "focusing": audio lingual acquisition ♦ electron optics ♦ Focimeter ♦ refocusing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "focusing": CAMERA REPAIRER, cap light, Ciliary muscles ♦ facetted concentrator, focused grid ♦ Geographic Component ♦ OPTICAL-INSTRUMENT ASSEMBLER ♦ Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921, pair of binocu- lars, PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT TECHNICIAN, Photovoltaic and solar thermal energy, Public Health Nursing ♦ segmented mirror, Self Psychology, Solar Concentrator ♦ temporary adjustment. (references) |
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Screenplays | You're focusing on the problem (Patch Adams; writing credit: Patch Adams; Maureen Mylander) Honey, I've got to start focusing on what I'm doing up here, I'm running out of time, so I'm gonna have to say good bye. I love you more than anything and I'll always be with you all right (24; writing credit: Mark Clompus; Marvin Close) | |
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 | During this 1961 Plague Study, laboratorians collected data focusing on the serology and immunology of Plague. Credit: CDC. |  | Three men from the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory demonstrating method of detecting radiation in event of an atomic blast, by focusing detection devices on the side of a building. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Arianne" by Mark Robbins Commentary: "My daughter at around one year old canon ft, 100mm lens, minimum focusing distance." | "Ufeostreo'seavo iis' del pra" by Slivester Chua Commentary: "A still focusing on the top decor of a theatre. ." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Other research is focusing on new ways to prevent, diagnose, and treat cataracts. (references) | |
The amount of basic research as well as research focusing on prevention is meager. (references) | ||
These imperfections in the focusing power of the eye are called refractive errors. (references) | ||
Business | The Chinese companies are focusing to develop high technology products. (references) | |
They are focusing their efforts on offering diversified computer services. (references) | ||
Many companies in Singapore are focusing on efforts to ensure the efficient energy usage. (references) | ||
Children | Mexico | In March the DIF began a program aimed at street children, focusing initially on 3,000 children in Mexico, Puebla, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Tijuana, and Juarez. (references) |
Senegal | Numerous organizations assist the Ministry in support of children's rights, including the Ministry of Health, which maintained a nationwide effort focusing on child survival. (references) | |
Tuvalu | Students compete for academic scholarships to attend university level education overseas; otherwise, they participate in vocational training focusing on subsistence farming and maritime training for men and computer or other business training for women. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Bahrain | University hiring and admissions policies appear to favor Sunnis and others who are assumed to support the Government, rather than focusing on professional experience and academic qualifications. (references) |
Malaysia | Government officials, including the Prime Minister, continued to accuse the foreign media of harboring ill intentions toward the country and of deliberately misrepresenting the country's political and economic environment by focusing on negative news. (references) | |
Thailand | In November 2000, in Ubon Ratchanthani province, villagers allegedly paid by the Government's electric power authority violently dispersed a longstanding protest at the Pak Mun dam by the Assembly of the Poor, an NGO focusing on issues of poverty and the environment. (references) | |
Economic History | Austria | The Greens, a left-of-center party focusing on environmental issues, received 4.4% of the vote in 1999. (references) |
Uk | It has signaled that it intends to achieve this improvement by focusing on policies that promote greater competition. (references) | |
Mauritius | The American Chamber of Commerce has 220 members and holds monthly luncheons focusing on topics of commercial interest. (references) | |
Human Rights | Iran | He has ceased authoring monthly columns on legal issues, many focusing on the rights of women, since the time of his detention. (references) |
Turkey | Regional bar associations and the EU held training seminars with the police and judges and prosecutors in several provinces and in Ankara headquarters, focusing on EU human rights standards. (references) | |
Cuba | On December 25, police, state security officers, and members of the RRB forcefully prevented the opening of an independent library focusing on Christian books in Florida, in the province of Camaguey. (references) | |
Political Economy | GHANA | The current government's economic program is focusing on the development of Ghana's private sector, which has been historically weak. (references) |
SAUDI ARABIA | Since about 1970, Saudi Arabia has published a series of five-year development plans, focusing on infrastructure and industrialization. (references) | |
Kazakhstan | The KNB continued efforts to improve its public image by focusing on fighting government corruption, religious extremism, terrorism, illegal arms exports, and organized crime. (references) | |
Trade | Jamaica | The Garmex Freezone is currently focusing more on attracting IT firms. (references) |
Bulgaria | It will be increasingly focusing on private-sector development in Bulgaria. (references) | |
Ukraine | The project will support the implementation of the government's medium term program focusing particularly on components relating to improving governance and building up institutions. (references) | |
Women | Senegal | According to a study funded by the Canadian Center for International Research and Development (CECI) focusing on the capital Dakar and on the city of Kaolack, 87 percent of 515 women interviewed had suffered from some form of domestic violence. (references) |
South Africa | At year's end, the parliamentary monitoring committee on women's affairs was completing consultations with NGO's and local and national government officials regarding defects in the domestic violence laws, preparing a report for the relevant ministries on how the legislation could be modified to ensure more effective implementation, and focusing on efforts to ensure that the budget oversight process included greater emphasis on the effects of government programs on women. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Latvia | However, there is concern among NGO's that the Government has not developed a strategy for focusing on the problem. (references) |
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Mariane Pearl | Well, the first thing I saw was the photo with their gun pointing at his head. I mean, it was alarming, but again, you know, I was focusing on trying to find him. |
Rush Limbaugh | Focusing blame on America for the world's pollution is intellectually dishonest and misses the point. |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We must assure our pre-eminence in the peaceful exploration of outer space, focusing on an expedition to the moon in this decade-in cooperation with other powers if possible, alone if necessary. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I have sought to give America a new kind of Government, smaller, more modern, more effective, full of ideas and policies appropriate to this new time, always putting people first, always focusing on the future. |
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| "Focusing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 93.58% of the time. "Focusing" is used about 700 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 93.58% | 655 | 9,994 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.14% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.57% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.71% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 700 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "focusing": focusing collector ♦ focusing on ♦ focusing screen ♦ isoelectric focusing. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "focusing": re-focusing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "focusing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fokusim (focus, focussing), vatërzim (focussing). (various references) | |
Arabic | تمركز (center on, centering, centralize, centre on, focus, localise, localize), تبأر (gauge). (various references) | |
Chinese | 聚焦 (focused, focussed, focussing, highlight). (various references) | |
Czech | soustředìný (concentrated, fixed, intent). (various references) | |
Danish | fokusering (focussing), finindstilling (exact fit, fine tuning, fitting, focussing, levelling, precision fitting), skarpheds/indstilling (focussing). (various references) | |
Dutch | focussering (focussing), focussen (focussing), scherpte-instelling (focussing), scherpstelling (focussing), scherpstellen (focus, focussing). (various references) | |
Finnish | fokusointi, tarkentaminen, tarkennus (coining, sizing). (various references) | |
French | concentration (focus). (various references) | |
German | scharfeinstellung (focussing). (various references) | |
Greek | ρύθμιση (adjusting, adjustment, control, regulation), εστίαση (focus, focussing). (various references) | |
Hebrew | התמקדות (focusing on). (various references) | |
Hungarian | beállítás (adjustment, approach, focussing, pointing, presentation, regulation, set, setting, trimming), összpontosítás (concentration, focussing, marshalling, stage). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pemfokusan. (various references) | |
Italian | focalizzazione, messa a fuoco (focussing). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 集束 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅうそく (being resolved, ceasing, coming to an end, convergence, having just ended, tie up). (various references) | |
Korean | 초점을 맞춤 (focussing). (various references) | |
Manx | coyrt gys cruinnaghey, cheet ry-cheilley (amalgamate, club, come together, confluence, congress, converge, get together, harmonize, herd, mix, tally). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ocusingfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | focagem (adjustment), concentração (compression, concentration, self-communion, training camp). (various references) | |
Russian | фокусировка (focussing), фокусировать фокусировка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | fokusiranje (focussing). (various references) | |
Spanish | enfoque (approach, focussing, grasp). (various references) | |
Swedish | fokuserande, avståndsinställning (remote aiming). (various references) | |
Turkish | odaklanma (focussing). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фокусування. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "focusing": defocusing, misfocusing, overfocusing, prefocusing, refocusing. (additional references) | |
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"Focusing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Focsani. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "focusing" (pronounced fō"kusing) |
| 7 | f ō" k u s i ng | refocusing. |
| 4 | -u s i ng | buttressing, canvassing, embarrassing, encompassing, grimacing, harnessing, menacing, noticing, prejudicing, promising, repurchasing, resurfacing, servicing, surfacing, witnessing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | annexing, announcing, accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, bypassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embracing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, mixing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, xeroxing. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-f-g-i-n-o-s-u" | |
-1 letter: congius. | |
-2 letters: coigns, cosign, cousin, fugios, fungic, fusing, fusion, gonifs, incogs. | |
-3 letters: cions, coifs, coign, coins, conus, cuifs, cuing, ficus, finos, focus, foins, fugio, fungi, fungo, gonif, icons, incog, incus, infos, scion, sonic, suing, uncos, using. | |
-4 letters: cigs, cion, cogs, coif, coin, coni, cons, cuif, fico, figs, fino, fins, fisc, foci, fogs, foin, fons. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-f-g-i-n-o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: confusing, focussing. | |
+2 letters: configures, defocusing, flouncings, refocusing. | |
+3 letters: confusingly, defocussing, fluorescing, microfungus, misfocusing, obfuscating, offscouring, prefocusing, refocussing, suffocating, unconfusing, vouchsafing. | |
+4 letters: crossruffing, misfocussing, offscourings, overfocusing, prefocussing, reconfigures. | |
+5 letters: fluoroscoping, genuflections, microfunguses, overfocussing, suffocatingly, uglifications. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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