Focus

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Focus, FOCUS, or foci may refer to:

In science, mathematics or computing:

  • Focus (cognitive process), selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things
  • Focus (computing), which of a number of GUI elements currently accepts keyboard input
  • Focus (optics), a point toward which light rays are made to converge
  • Focus (linguistics), a concept referring to the way information in one phrase relates to information that has come before
  • Focus (earthquake), an earthquake's underground point of origin or hypocenter
  • FOCUS, a database reporting program
  • FOCUS (hardware), a CPU architecture
  • Helicon Focus, an image software program
  • Focus (geometry), a focus of a conic section
  • Samsung Focus, a smartphone manufactured by Samsung which runs Microsoft Windows Phone

Music

Focus: Jan Akkerman & Thijs van Leer, an album by the band Focus

Writing

Film

Other meanings

  • AGM-87 Focus, a U.S. Navy air-to-surface missile
  • Focus Bikes, a German bicycle manufacturer
  • Ford Focus, an international Ford automobile
  • Focus (board game), an abstract strategy game
  • Focus group, a form of qualitative research in which a group of people are asked about their attitude towards a product, service, concept, advertisement, idea, or packaging
  • Focus mitt, a padded target attached to a glove and usually used in training boxers and other combat athletes
  • Operation Focus, the Israeli name for the attack against the Egyptian Air Force in the Six-Day War
  • Focus, in Final Fantasy XIII, a task given to L'Cie to grant eternal life upon completion, or the life of a mindless Cieth on failure

Company and organizations

See also

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