Word: focus
Word origin: mid 17th century (as a term in geometry and physics): from Latin, literally ‘domestic hearth’.
Phonetic:
ˈfəʊkəsListen:
the centre of interest or activity. Example: this generation has made the environment a focus of attention
the state or quality of having or producing clear visual definition. Example: his face is rather out of focus
one of the fixed points from which the distances to any point of a given curve, such as an ellipse or parabola, are connected by a linear relation.
an element of a sentence that is given prominence by intonational or other means.
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