Focus (Brazil)

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 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

* Epileptic focus in epilepsy
*Focus (earthquake), an earthquake's underground point of origin or hypocenter
*Focus (optics), 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 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)