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.

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

    deDie Steigerung der Verkäufe war der Schwerpunkt der Teambesprechung. — bigfellow68

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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.

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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