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focused, ppl. a.|ˈfəʊkəst| [f. focus v. and n. + -ed.] 1. a. In senses of the vb.; brought to or into a focus.
1864Daily Tel. 12 Apr., Photographers alone has he shunned..and if ever he runs away from anything, it will be from a focussed lens. 1890Woodbury Encycl. Photogr. 294 Make the focussed image fall on one of these lines. b. transf. and fig.
1892J. D. Hood Waterspouts Yorksh. Wolds 25 The force of the focussed body of water made a triple rent down the slope of the hill. 1909Milton Memorial Lect. 99 The beautiful, but not strictly focussed scenery of ‘Lycidas’. 1934H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. I. iii. §2. 95 Yet impossible as it is to get any focussed clearness and exactitude here, it is equally impossible to ignore this phase of completed puerility. 2. Having a focus (of a specified length); used only in comb., as short focused.
1858L. Price Man. Photogr. Manip. ii. 69 ‘Short-focused’ lenses are employed for children. |