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Definition of Focalize

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 Focalize

1. v. t. To bring to a focus; to focus; to concentrate.

Definition of Focalize

1. Verb. To focus, or to adjust a focus ¹

2. Verb. To sharpen an image by focusing ¹

3. Verb. To concentrate on a particular location; to localize ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Focalize

1. to focus [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES] - See also: focus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Focalize

focal reaction focal sclerosing glomerulopathy focal sclerosis focal sclerosis with hyalinosis focal segmental glomerulosclerosis focal seizure focal spot focal spot size focalisation focalise

focalised focalises focalising focalization focalizations focalize (current term) focalized focalizes focalizing focally

foci focillation focimeter focimeters focimetry focus focus-forming unit focus-group focus-grouped

Literary usage of Focalize

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

1. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1915)
"The next step is developing or obtaining voice and in this try above all else to keep the voice soft; sacrifice strength rather than quality, and focalize ..."

2. A Handbook of Physics Measurements by Ervin Sidney Ferry, Oscar William Silvey, George William Sherman, David Christie Duncan (1918)
"focalize until a sharp image is produced and substitute the ring diaphragm /" for the previously used iris and note any change in the image. ..."

3. Report of the Annual Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration (1905)
"William Randal Cremer, a member of the English Parliament, twenty years ago felt that there was an opportunity in that Parliament to focalize this sentiment ..."

4. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1887)
"Away, literalists and word-mongers, and text-quoters, unless they have in them the spirit which sees how lines converge and focalize, and how scattered ..."

5. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1870)
"Central pencils focalize nearer the surface, ... The red rays in a vertical plane cut each other or focalize farther from the surface than the rays in a ..."

6. An Elementary Manual of Physiology for Colleges, Schools of Nursing, of by Russell Burton-Opitz (1922)
"Contrariwise, an eye which is unable to focalize the rays of light precisely upon the retina, ... A flat lens is employed to focalize distant objects. ..."

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