Focus (: foci or focuses) may refer to:

Arts

* Focus or Focus Festival, former name of the Adelaide Fringe arts festival in East Australia

Film

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

, 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 focus group is a group interview involving a small number (sometimes up to ten) of demographically predefined participants. Their reactions to specific researcher/evaluator-posed questions are studied. Focus groups are used in market researc ...

, 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 disease, non-communicable Neurological disorder, neurological disorders characterized by a tendency for recurrent, unprovoked Seizure, seizures. A seizure is a sudden burst of abnormal electrical activit ...

* 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) * FOCUS Program, a voluntary study program at numerous American universities * Focus (Warsaw), an office building in Warsaw, Poland