focus

Focus

1. (optics) A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.
2. Concentration of attention. Try to focus on our problem.
3. The exact point of where an earthquake occurs, in three dimensions. The earthquake focus was at exactly 37 degrees north, 18 degrees south, seventy five meters below the ground.

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Shown are the controls on a camera to set the focus