Focus

Focus (pl.: foci or focuses) may refer to:

Arts

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

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

See also

• 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 with titles beginning with Focus