Noun
1. the concentration of attention or energy on something;
"the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology""he had no direction in his life"2. maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system;
"in focus""out of focus"3. maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea;
"the controversy brought clearly into focus an important difference of opinion"4. a central point or locus of an infection in an organism;
"the focus of infection"5. special emphasis attached to something;
"the stress was more on accuracy than on speed"6. a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges
7. a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section