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Definition of Focusses
1. focus [v] - See also: focus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Focusses
Literary usage of Focusses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spectroscopy by Edward Charles Cyril Baly (1905)
"A beam of sunlight from a heliostat falls on to the concave mirror M, which
focusses it upon the slit S' of a concave grating apparatus. ..."
2. The Electrical Engineer (1889)
"34. As a general rule the public lighting will be done by incandescent lamps,
the intensity of which to be hereafter determined. Large focusses of light, ..."
3. Sketches of New England, Or, Memories of the Country by N S Dodge (1842)
"I say, sir," rejoined the woman, " that the loco- focusses ruin the country. ...
But you won't cut off his leg, I tell you now, loco focusses or no loco ..."
4. A Text-book of Ophthalmology by William Fisher Norris, Charles Augustus Oliver (1893)
"A lens of half the strength of the one diopter—that is, one which focusses at
only two meters' distance—is known as an 0.50 D. lens ; and a lens which is of ..."
5. On the Adjustment and Testing of Telescopic Objectives by Harold Dennis Taylor (1896)
"... focusses short of the focus for the rest of the objective. This effect is
shown in Figs. 20 and 2oa, which represent the appearances to be seen inside ..."
6. Laboratory manual of physiology by Frederick Carl Busch (1905)
"Emmetropia is that condition in which the eye, in a state of rest, focusses
parallel rays of light exactly upon the retina. Ametropia is any deviation from ..."
7. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1897)
"This apathy is rapidly disappearing, and The Ground- Glass focusses with ...
As these pages are being corrected for press The Ground-Glass focusses upon ..."
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