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Definition of Focalise

1. Verb. Concentrate on a particular place or spot. "The infection has localized in the left eye"

2. Verb. Bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions.

3. Verb. Become focussed or come into focus. "The light focused"

4. Verb. Put (an image) into focus. "Please focus the image; we cannot enjoy the movie"

Definition of Focalise

1. Verb. (alternative spelling of focalize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Focalise

1. to focalize [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES] - See also: focalize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Focalise

focal nephritis focal nodular hyperplasia focal plane focal point focal points focal ratio focal reaction focal sclerosing glomerulopathy focal sclerosis focal sclerosis with hyalinosis

focal segmental glomerulosclerosis focal seizure focal spot focal spot size focalisation focalise (current term) focalised focalises focalising focalization

focalizations focalize focalized focalizes focalizing focally foci focillation focimeter focimeters

Literary usage of Focalise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bookman (1897)
"... work to what you have undertaken, do not attempt to discuss all history in handling the span of a man's life, circumscribe, differentiate, focalise. ..."

2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"... after all, has done nothing more than focalise the national tendency, or form a centre about which the ideas and tendencies of an epoch may crystallise. ..."

3. Psychology; an Introductory Study of the Structure and Function of Human by James Rowland Angell (1908)
"It is the psychical device by which we are enabled consciously to focalise upon our acts the lessons of our previous relevant experiences, and through which ..."

4. Aristocracy and Evolution: A Study of the Rights, the Origin, and the Social by William Hurrell Mallock (1898)
"... just as a lens is essential to the photographer's camera though its function is solely to focalise, not to colour, the rays transmitted by it. ..."

5. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1844)
"Proper display is not an art but science as well and it ia undoubtedly the first essential step to focalise human attention upon the ..."

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