Focus (: foci or focuses) may refer to:

Arts

* Focus or Focus Festival, former name of the

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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

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* "Focus", a song by Susumu Hirasawa from ''

Paranoia Agent Original Soundtrack ''Paranoia Agent Original Soundtrack'' is the soundtrack to the TV series '' Paranoia Agent'' composed by Susumu Hirasawa. The CDs catalog number is #5274, and is labeled by Geneon Entertainment, the same company that originally held the English l ...

'' * "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 ''The Heart Is a Monster'' is the fourth studio album by the alternative rock band, Failure. It is the follow-up to 1996's ''Fantastic Planet''. The album was released on June 30, 2015, via INgrooves Music Group's artist services division, INre ...

'', 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 The Central News Agency (CNA) is the national news agency of the Republic of China (Taiwan). History The CNA agency was founded , by the Kuomintang. Party member Hsiao Tung-tzu separated the CNA from Kuomintang headquarters in 1932. The agency ...

, 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 Focus was a British do-it-yourself and home improvement retailer, founded in 1987. The retailer grew by acquiring rival retailers such as Payless, Do It All and Great Mills; by its peak in 2002, it was the second-largest home improvement ...

, a UK chain of do-it-yourself stores * Focus.com, a business social networking platform *

Focus Brands GoTo Foods (formerly Focus Brands) is an American company that currently owns the Schlotzsky's, Carvel, Cinnabon, Moe's Southwest Grill, McAlister's Deli, Auntie Anne's and Jamba brands. It is located in Sandy Springs, Georgia, and operates ...

, American restaurant franchiser and operator *

Focus Features Focus Features LLC is an American independent film production and distribution company, owned by Comcast as a unit of Universal Pictures, which is itself a unit of Comcast's division NBCUniversal. Focus Features distributes independent and fore ...

, 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 Focus Humanitarian Assistance is an international group of agencies established in Europe, North America and South Asia to complement the provision of emergency relief, principally in the developing world. It helps people in need reduce their depen ...

, 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 an American Christian fundamentalism, Evangelical Protestant organization founded in 1977 in Southern California by James Dobson, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The group is one of a number of Evangel ...

, 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 Focus Entertainment (formerly Focus Home Interactive) is a French video game publisher based in Paris. It is a subsidiary of PulluP Entertainment Group. Founded in 1996, Focus has published and distributed original titles such as ''Sherlock Holm ...

, a French publisher of computer games * Families OverComing Under Stress, a stress management program *

Focus Bikes Focus Bikes is a bicycle manufacturer that has its administration in Stuttgart, Germany and production facilities based in Cloppenburg, Germany and builds sport bicycles such as e-bikes, racing bicycles and mountain bicycles. History The comp ...

, a German bicycle manufacturer *

Ford Focus The Ford Focus is a compact car (C-segment in Europe) manufactured by Ford Motor Company from 1998 until 2025. It was created under Alexander Trotman's Ford 2000 plan, which aimed to globalize model development and sell one compact vehicle worl ...

, 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) In a computing graphical user interface (GUI), a component has focus when it is selected to receive input from the user by an event such as a mouse button click or keypress. Moving the focus away from a specific user interface element is known as a ...

, which of a number of GUI elements currently accepts keyboard input *

FOCUS 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), ''Focus'' (2001 film), a 2001 film based on the Arthur Miller novel *Focus (2015 ...

, a database reporting program * HP FOCUS, a CPU architecture * Helicon Focus, an image software program *

Focus (geometry) In geometry, focuses or foci (; : 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, ellipse, p ...

, a key point in specifying a conic section or other plane curve *

Firefox Focus Firefox Focus is a free and open-source privacy-focused mobile browser by Mozilla, based on Firefox. It is available for Android and iOS smartphones and tablets. Its predecessor, Focus by Firefox, was released in December 2015 as a tracker-bloc ...

, a privacy-focused browser from Mozilla *Focus number system, a

logarithmic number system A logarithmic number system (LNS) is an arithmetic system used for representing real numbers in computer and digital hardware, especially for digital signal processing. Overview A number, X, is represented in an LNS by two components: the loga ...

proposed in 1977

Social sciences

*Focus or

attention Attention or focus, is the concentration of awareness on some phenomenon to the exclusion of other stimuli. It is the selective concentration on discrete information, either subjectively or objectively. William James (1890) wrote that "Atte ...

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

Focus (linguistics) In linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonet ...

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

, a point toward which rays are made to converge

Military technology

AGM-87 Focus The AGM-87 Focus was an air-to-surface missile developed by the United States. Overview The missile was a development of the AIM-9B Sidewinder air-to-air missile, intended for use against ground targets. Development took place at the China Lake ...

, a U.S. Navy air-to-surface missile *

Operation Focus Operation Focus (, ''Mivtza Moked'') was the opening airstrike by Israel at the start of the Six-Day War in 1967. It is sometimes referred to as the "Sinai Air Strike". At 07:45 on 5 June 1967, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) under Maj. Gen. Morde ...

, 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 is a 2009 role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles and later for Windows (in 2014). Released in Japan in December 2009 and international in March 2010, it is the thirteenth titl ...

'', 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