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disfocus

disfocus is the alternative form of defocus.

Meaning of defocus

Noun

defocus (uncountable)

  1. The process of going out of focus.
  2. The distance by which the focal point is in front of (positive defocus) or beyond (negative defocus) the image or target surface.
    • Fundamental to the concept of recovering the depth by measuring defocus is the relationship between the focused and the defocused images of a scene.2012, Subhasis Chaudhuri, A. N. Rajagopalan, Depth From Defocus: A Real Aperture Imaging Approach, page 16

See all 3 meanings of defocus

Verb

disfocus (third-person singular simple present disfocuses, present participle disfocusing, simple past and past participle disfocused)

  1. To get defocused.
    Antonyms:
    focus, prioritize

Antonyms of disfocus

Forms of disfocus

Noun
pluraldisfoci
pluraldisfocuses
Verb
third-person singular presentdisfocuses
present participledisfocusing
past participledisfocused
pastdisfocused

Origin of disfocus

From dis- + focus.

Questions about disfocus

What does disfocus mean?
Disfocus means to get defocused.
What is disfocus the alternative form of?
Disfocus is the alternative form of defocus.
What part of speech is disfocus?
Disfocus is a verb.
What is the past tense of disfocus?
The past tense of disfocus is disfocused.

Words near disfocus in the dictionary

  1. disfluencies
  2. disfluency
  3. disfluent
  4. disfluently
  5. disfoci
  6. disfocus
  7. disfocused
  8. disfocuses
  9. disfocusing
  10. disforest
  11. disforestation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disfocus (page history and authors); defocus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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