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Definition of Defocusing
1. defocus [v] - See also: defocus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defocusing
Literary usage of Defocusing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin and Its Meaning: On the Origin of the Universe and Its Mechanics by Roger Ellman (2004)
"(4) If the first half cycle of encountered center waves that the source center's
waves encounter is a defocusing half cycle then: • a subsequent even ..."
2. Seismology, 1989-1992: Nuclear Test-Ban Verification (in Sweden) by Eva Johannisson (1994)
"The m^ estimate is based on the initial part of the P-wave, and this is often
subject to focusing or defocusing effects along its ray path from source to ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"... instruments also have the defocusing technique available for resolving metastable
ions: M. Barber and RM Elliott, ASTM E-14 Conference on Mass ..."
4. Utilisation and Reliability of High Power Proton Accelerators: Workshop by NEA Nuclear Science Committee (2001)
"The proton energy is 600 MeV and the beam size is assumed to be a circular spot
of 7.5 cm radius. Beam defocusing prevents localised high power densities in ..."
5. Human Psychology by Howard Crosby Warren (1919)
"There is a ' defocusing ' as well as a focusing. In the grouping process some of
the synapses are partly blocked, and the impulses along these paths lose in ..."