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focalise

focalise is the alternative spelling of focalize.

Meaning of focalize

Verb

focalize (third-person singular simple present focalizes, present participle focalizing, simple past and past participle focalized)

  1. To focus, or to adjust a focus.
  2. To sharpen an image by focusing.
  3. To concentrate on a particular location; to localize.
  4. To switch to a particular perspective (focalization).
    • The protagonist of The Monkey Wrench foGang, George Washington Hayduke […] is a smelly, "hairy, bawdy, independent loner" (Barber 1996, 133) and disillusioned ex-Green Beret who acts as crass as the third-person narrator who often focalizes through him.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 211

Forms of focalise

third-person singular presentfocalises
present participlefocalising
past participlefocalised
pastfocalised

Questions about focalise

What is focalise the alternative spelling of?
Focalise is the alternative spelling of focalize.

Words near focalise in the dictionary

  1. focal planes
  2. focal point
  3. focal points
  4. focalisation
  5. focalisations
  6. focalise
  7. focalised
  8. focaliser
  9. focalisers
  10. focalises
  11. focalising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: focalise (page history and authors); focalize (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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