to defocus

Examples

• All

• If the view is too sharp, try to defocus the image by adjusting the camera settings.

• Now, if I can just defocus their downlink beam by a hair...

  Fiction book (1994)

• For this technique, which resembles the Orton or slide sandwich from the old film days, you will want to defocus or make the image visually grow larger in the viewfinder.

  Academic text (2009)

• When self-focusing pushes I above 10^14 W cm^-2, multiphoton ionization creates a plasma, whose refractive index, being less than air's, causes the beam to defocus.

  Academic text (2001)

• When adjusting the telescope, remember to defocus the image to better appreciate the star's colors.

Synonyms

B

to blur

vsto defocus

20 3.7

To lose focus so that things look unclear

acts by changing lens settings to make an image less sharp

U

to unfocus

vsto defocus

1 7.4

To make your eyes or attention less clear

reduces image sharpness by altering lens or optical settings

B

to blear

vsto defocus

9.9

To make the edges of things look dim or blurred

does this specifically through optical adjustment of image sharpness

D

to dislimn

vsto defocus

• Archaic

9.9

To make the outline or image faint and hard to see

reduces sharpness by changing how lenses form the view

Antonyms

F

to focus

• Specialized

219 3.8

To make an image or light clear and sharp

How Sharp

to soften

50 3.1

to defocus

6.1

to obscure

86 7.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology