Focusing

//ˈfəʊ.kə.sɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The action or concentration of attention or energy on something. uncountable
  2. 2
    the act of bringing into focus wordnet
  3. 3
    The act or action of bringing something into focus or attention. uncountable
  4. 4
    the concentration of attention or energy on something wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of focus form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    Used for or pertaining to focusing. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Pertaining to the direction of attention, effort, or energy to a particular audience or purpose over time. not-comparable

Synonyms

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centeringcentringconcentrationdirectionfocal pointfocalisation

Example

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"Although most of the content and thought has not been dependent on any language, when focusing on Japanese, differences in syntactic structures or the fact that individual words are not written separately and distinctly then requires several points of consideration."

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