All 4 Uses of
focus
in
Childhood's End
- Ruperf S parties seldom had any focal point, but usually consisted of half a dozen independent groups intent on their own affairs.†
Chpt 7 *
- What Jan was seeing, he knew, was nothing less than the light of distant stars, collected and focused into his eye wherever conditions were favourable along the track of the ship.†
Chpt 8
- He was trying to focus on them when he realized that they were moving….†
Chpt 22 *
- He watched until it had dwindled to a thin thread of blue, hard for the eye to focus upon in the surrounding redness of the sky.†
Chpt 22
Definitions:
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(focus as in: Turn your focus to question #2.) verb: to concentrate, look at, or pay attention to
noun: the act of concentration, or the ability to concentrate
(to concentrate is to direct attention or effort towards a single thing)
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(focus as in: The focus of our study is...) where attention is concentrated or directed