Meaning

8 senses
  1. An object that is used to focus concentration when performing magic.

  2. The individual who is the focus of a study or review, when the study or review is based on that individual's interactions with others.

  3. A representative of a group or class of people within an organizational system.

  4. A sign or similar type of marketing material designed to draw attention to special deals.

  5. The central or most important element of something; a focal element.

  6. A major point of interest; an attraction.

  7. An exemplar of a concept.

  8. (obsolete)One of two lines perpendicular to the axis of a cone such that the cosine of the angle between the line and the axis is equal to the ratio of the cosines o the semiangles of the cone.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. The tree was the focal point of the village square.

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  2. The increase in sales was the focal point of the team meeting.

    deDie Steigerung der Verkäufe war der Schwerpunkt der Teambesprechung.

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  3. The focal point of the magnifying glass was only two inches from the object.

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  4. That's the focal point.

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  5. In recent years, Nazare has become a global focal point for big wave surfers.

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Origin

Learned borrowing from New Latin focālis. By surface analysis, focus + -al.

Learned borrowing from New Latin focālis. By surface analysis, focus + -al.

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Forms

plural: focals
Singularfocal
Pluralfocals

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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