Focus, or its plural form foci may refer to:

Arts

* Focus or Focus Festival, former name of the

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arts festival in South Australia

Film

*''Focus'', a 1962 TV film starring

James Whitmore James Allen Whitmore Jr. (October 1, 1921 – February 6, 2009) was an American actor. He received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Theatre World Award, and a Tony Award, plus two Aca ...

* ''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 modal frame in music is "a number of types permeating and unifying African, European, and American song" and melody., quoted in Richard Middleton (1990/2002). ''Studying Popular Music'', p. 203. Philadelphia: Open University Press. . It may als ...

, a musical technique also known as modal frame * Focus..., American music producer *

Focus (band) Focus is a Dutch progressive rock band formed in Amsterdam in 1969 by keyboardist, vocalist, and flutist Thijs van Leer, drummer Hans Cleuver, bassist Martijn Dresden, and guitarist Jan Akkerman. The band has undergone numerous formations in i ...

, 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 Joseph Anthony Budden II (born August 31, 1980) is an American media personality and former rapper. He first gained recognition as a rapper with his 2003 top 40 single " Pump It Up" and as a member of the hip hop supergroup Slaughterhouse. In ...

* "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 Focus Features LLC is an American film production and distribution company, owned by Comcast as part of Universal Pictures, a division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. Focus Features distributes independent and foreign films in t ...

, 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 The FOR Organizing Committee in the United States or FOCUS was a small group of leftists in the United States. It was the US section of the Revolutionary Workers Ferment, known by its Spanish initials FOR (Fomento Obrero Revolutionario). FOCUS wa ...

, 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 Focus on the Family (FOTF or FotF) is a fundamentalist Protestant organization founded in 1977 in Southern California by James Dobson, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The group is one of a number of evangelical parachurch organizatio ...

, an American non-profit organization *

Focus Services Focus Services LLC is a privately owned call center service provider, specializing in multi-product telesales and customer relationship management founded in 1995. It has locations in the United States, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and the Philippines. ...

, an international call center company *

Fellowship of Catholic University Students The Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) is a Catholic outreach program for American college students founded in 1997 by Curtis Martin and Dr. Edward Sri at Benedictine College. Origin and purpose FOCUS exists to evangelize. The mi ...

, a Catholic outreach program for American college students founded in 1997 *

Focus Software Zemax is a company that sells optical design software. OpticStudio is its flagship product and a commonly used optical design program for Microsoft Windows. It is used for the design and analysis of both imaging and illumination systems. History O ...

, 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 FOCUS (Families Overcoming Under Stress™) is a family-level resiliency training program designed to assist families experiencing high levels of stress and to prevent greater problems from occurring in the face of further stressors.Focus Bikes, a German bicycle manufacturer *

Ford Focus The Ford Focus is a compact car ( C-segment in Europe) manufactured by Ford Motor Company since 1998. It was created under Alexander Trotman's Ford 2000 plan, which aimed to globalize model development and sell one compact vehicle worldwide. The ...

, 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) Focus on the Important ( hr, Fokus na bitno) or just Focus ( hr, Fokus) is a minor political party in Croatia. It was founded by independent politicians and entrepreneurs from the Zagreb County area. History The First President of the party i ...

, a political party in Croatia *

The Focus Foundation The Focus Foundation, located in Davidsonville, Maryland, is a research foundation dedicated to identifying and assisting families and children who have X and Y Chromosomal Variations (also called X & Y chromosomal variations), dyslexia and/or ...

, 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 The Hewlett-Packard FOCUS microprocessor, launched in 1982, was the first commercial, single chip, fully 32-bit microprocessor available on the market. At this time, all 32-bit competitors ( DEC, IBM, Prime Computer, etc.) used multi-chip bit-slic ...

, a CPU architecture * Helicon Focus, an image software program *

Focus (geometry) In geometry, focuses or foci (), singular focus, are special points with reference to which any of a variety of curves is constructed. For example, one or two foci can be used in defining conic sections, the four types of which are the circle, e ...

, 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 Attention is the behavioral and cognitive process of selectively concentrating on a discrete aspect of information, whether considered subjective or objective, while ignoring other perceivable information. William James (1890) wrote that "Att ...

, selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things *

Focus (linguistics) In linguistics, focus (abbreviated ) is a grammatical category that conveys which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable, or contrastive information. In the English sentence "Mary only insulted BILL", focus is expressed prosodically ...

, the way information in one phrase relates to information that has come before *

Focus group A focus group is a group interview involving a small number of demographically similar people or participants who have other common traits/experiences. Their reactions to specific researcher/evaluator-posed questions are studied. Focus groups are ...

, 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

* Epileptic focus in

epilepsy Epilepsy is a group of non-communicable neurological disorders characterized by recurrent epileptic seizures. Epileptic seizures can vary from brief and nearly undetectable periods to long periods of vigorous shaking due to abnormal electrical ...

* Focus (earthquake), an earthquake's underground point of origin or hypocenter *

Focus (optics) In geometrical optics, a focus, also called an image point, is a point where light rays originating from a point on the object converge. Although the focus is conceptually a point, physically the focus has a spatial extent, called the blu ...

, a point toward which rays are made to converge

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 focus mitt is a padded target attached to a glove and usually used in training boxers and other combat athletes. The use of focus mitts is said to have come about as Muay Thai and Far Eastern martial arts made their way toward the United Sta ...

, a padded target attached to a glove and usually used in training boxers and other combat athletes *Focus, in ''

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'', 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