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🎯 Concentrating attention 📷 Making clear
focusing

focusing

2.8
To make a picture clear by moving a camera or lens
  • noun
  • /ˈfoʊkəsɪŋ/
translation icon : enfoque
  • Proper focusing is essential for taking clear photographs.

And each one of these pairs of photodiodes is used to do phase detection, focusing.

Examples

  • So we're going to have brand new, clear, nice focusing new cameras starting tomorrow hopefully.

  • So it's just kind of gracefully does this focusing work, kind of zooming in.

  • But it's the focusing out when focusing in and the focusing in when focusing out.

  • And that my friends is on focusing and this my friends is on not focusing.

  • So it's not a case of like sort of focusing and, and being really conscientious.

  • So talking about kind of how people recycle your kind of research project focusing on this is called One Bin to Rule Them All.

  • And, you know, I think the, the misstep was not even addressing that focusing entirely on meditation.

  • It, it's fundamental function is, is of focusing rage and aggression so you don't act it out on each other.

  • It says under eye and face, soft focusing light diffusing loose powder.

  • The focusing of sunlight through a magnifying glass can start a fire.

Synonyms

refocusing
vsfocusing
1 4.4

To bring attention or a camera's view back to something

is the single act of adjustment to make something clear initially
centering
vsfocusing
  • US
1 4.9

Focusing the mind and attention on one thought or goal

involves adjusting an object or device to improve visual clarity
focalization
vsfocusing
8.4

To bring attention to one part so it becomes clearer

adjusts an object or device to make something clearer
prefocusing
vsfocusing
  • Specialized
7.2

Adjusting a camera lens before taking a picture to make the image sharp

is the typical adjustment done when clarity is actually required

Antonyms

obscuration
1 8.2

Something that stops you from seeing or understanding

How Precise

to calibrate
  • Specialized
36 6.0
focusing
2.8
to fine-tune
26 4.2
to adjust
317 2.7

Surface Forms

focusing singular
focussings plural

Morphology

focusing = focus (transparent) = focus + ing

Standard gerund/nominalization of the verb 'focus' (here meaning 'to adjust an optical device'), so the noun 'focusing' means 'the act of adjusting to bring into focus'.

Etymology

Focusing comes from the Latin word focus, originally meaning the 'hearth' and later used for the point where light comes together. When you focus a camera you move the lens so the light meets and the picture becomes clear, so focusing means making something sharp and clear.