FOCUSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does focused mean? 

• FOCUSED (adjective)
  The adjective FOCUSED has 3 senses:

1. being in focus or brought into focus

2. (of light rays) converging on a point

3. of an optical system (e.g. eye or opera glasses) adjusted to produce a clear image

  Familiarity information: FOCUSED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOCUSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being in focus or brought into focus

Synonyms:

focused; focussed

Antonym:

unfocused ((of an image) not being in or brought into focus)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of light rays) converging on a point

Synonyms:

focused; focussed

Context example:

focused light rays can set something afire

Similar:

convergent (tending to come together from different directions)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Of an optical system (e.g. eye or opera glasses) adjusted to produce a clear image

Similar:

adjusted (altered to accommodate to certain requirements or bring into a proper relation)

 Context examples 

Most recently we've focused on how C. elegans turns on IPR genes in response to microsporidia and heat stress.

(New Pathway for Handling Stress Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

When participants focused on houses, activity was enhanced in the parahippocampal place area (PPA).

(How the brain pays attention to faces and places, NIH)

It uses relatively inexpensive, focused educational mechanisms that can be used during short one-on-one conversations with physicians.

(Academic Detailing, NCI Thesaurus)

A voluntary membership organization of physicians that sets standards for the profession of medicine, and is highly focused on medical education.

(American Medical Association, NCI Thesaurus)

Multidisciplinary and translational research teams focused on a specific disease, modality, biologic process or scientific area of particular significance.

(Centers of Research Excellence, NCI Thesaurus)

Treatment for AVMs can include surgery or focused radiation therapy.

(Arteriovenous Malformations, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Most studies of microbial communities and their genes, collectively known as the microbiome, have focused on bacterial and fungal communities.

(Algal Virus Infects, Affects Humans, NIH)

As a result, much research has focused on creating new compounds to fight these bacteria.

(Scientists Discover Antibiotic Mechanism, NIH)

New drug development for malaria is focused on all stages of the malaria parasite’s lifecycle — liver, blood and gametocyte.

(New way to stop falciparum malaria transmission, SciDev.Net)

Much of the research on the human microbial environment — or microbiome — has focused on identifying all the different microbe species.

(Microbes are at work in our bodies, and researchers have figured out what they're up to, National Science Foundation)