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Focus, or its plural form foci may refer to:

Arts

  • Focus or Focus Festival, former name of the Adelaide Fringe arts festival in South Australia

Film

  • Focus, a 1962 TV film starring James Whitmore
  • Focus (2001 film), a 2001 film based on the Arthur Miller novel
  • Focus (2015 film), a 2015 film about con artists

Music

  • Focus (music), a musical technique also known as modal frame
  • Focus..., American music producer
  • Focus (band), Dutch progressive rock band

Albums

  • Focus (Stan Getz album), 1961 jazz album
  • Focus (Bill Hardman album), 1984 jazz album
  • Focus (Jan Akkerman & Thijs van Leer album), 1985
  • Focus (Cynic album), 1993 metal album
  • Focus (Chico Freeman album), 1994 jazz album
  • Focus (Souls of Mischief album), 1998 alternative hip-hop album
  • Focus (Holly Starr album), 2012 CCM album
  • Focus (Arthur Blythe album), 2002 jazz album
  • Focus (Diaura album), 2013 Japanese visual kei album

Songs

  • "Focus" (Ariana Grande song), 2015
  • "Focus" (Bazzi song), 2019
  • "Focus" (Craig David song), 2018
  • "Focus" (H.E.R. song), 2017
  • "Focus" (Jacob Whitesides song), 2016
  • "Focus / No Angel", a 2018 single by Charli XCX
  • "Focus", a song by Joe Budden
  • "Focus", a song by Susumu Hirasawa from Paranoia Agent Original Soundtrack
  • "Focus", a song by Kim Dong-han from D-Hours AM 7:03
  • "Focus", a song by 10 Years from Division
  • "The Focus", by Failure, from The Heart Is a Monster, 2015

Writing

  • Focus (encyclopedia), a 1958 Swedish language encyclopedia
  • Focus (German magazine), a German weekly news magazine
  • Focus (Italian magazine), an Italian monthly popular science magazine
  • Focus (Polish magazine), a Polish scientific monthly magazine
  • Focus (Christian magazine)
  • Focus (Ukrainian magazine), a national Ukrainian weekly news magazine
  • Focus Taiwan, of the Central News Agency
  • Focus (novel), a 1945 novel by Arthur Miller
  • BBC Focus, a monthly science and technology magazine
  • Fokus (magazine), a Swedish magazine
  • San Francisco Focus, a monthly magazine

Companies, brands, organizations

  • Anti-Nazi Council, a 1930s organisation operated by a group known as Focus in Defence of Freedom and Peace sometimes called the Focus Group, including Winston Churchill
  • Focus DIY, a UK chain of do-it-yourself stores
  • Focus.com, a business social networking platform
  • Focus Brands, American restaurant franchiser and operator
  • Focus Features, the art house films division of NBC Universal's Universal Studios
  • Focus Films, U.K. independent film producer
  • FOR Organizing Committee of the United States, an American post-Trotskyist group, known as FOCUS
  • Focus Humanitarian Assistance, an international emergency relief organization
  • Focus Ireland, Irish nonprofit organization providing services for homeless people
  • Focus on the Family, an American non-profit organization
  • Focus Services, an international call center company
  • Fellowship of Catholic University Students, a Catholic outreach program for American college students founded in 1997
  • Focus Software, former name of Zemax Development Corporation, a maker of optical design software
  • Focus Home Interactive, a French publisher of computer games
  • Families OverComing Under Stress, a stress management program
  • Focus Bikes, a German bicycle manufacturer
  • Ford Focus, an international Ford automobile
  • Focus (board game), an abstract strategy game
  • Samsung Focus, a smartphone manufactured by Samsung which runs Microsoft Windows Phone
  • Focus (Croatian political party), a political party in Croatia
  • The Focus Foundation, an American research and support foundation

Science and technology

Computing and mathematics

  • Focus (computing), which of a number of GUI elements currently accepts keyboard input
  • FOCUS, a database reporting program
  • HP FOCUS, a CPU architecture
  • Helicon Focus, an image software program
  • Focus (geometry), a key point in specifying a conic section or other plane curve
  • Firefox Focus, a privacy-focused browser from Mozilla
  • Focus number system, a logarithmic number system proposed in 1977

Social sciences

  • Focus or attention, selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things
  • Focus (linguistics), the way information in one phrase relates to information that has come before
  • Focus group, a form of qualitative research in which a group of people are asked about their attitude towards a product, service, concept, advertisement, idea, or packaging

Other sciences

Military technology

  • AGM-87 Focus, a U.S. Navy air-to-surface missile
  • Operation Focus, the Israeli name for the attack against the Egyptian Air Force in the Six-Day War

Other uses

  • Focus mitt, a padded target attached to a glove and usually used in training boxers and other combat athletes
  • Focus, in Final Fantasy XIII, a task given to L'Cie to grant eternal life upon completion, or the life of a mindless Cieth on failure
  • Fokus, a Danish political party
  • Focus (name)
  • FOCUS Program, a voluntary study program at numerous American universities

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Focus para niños

  • Focus group, a group interviewed to analyse opinions
    • Focus Group (disambiguation)
  • Hyperfocus, an intense form of mental concentration on a subject, topic, or task
  • Strong focusing, a principle in accelerator physics
  • Focal (disambiguation)
  • Focused (disambiguation)
  • Focusing (disambiguation)
  • Focal point (disambiguation)
  • Fantasy Focus (disambiguation)
  • All pages beginning with "Focus"
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