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focalize

focalize verb: to focus, or to adjust a focus.

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

focalize meaning in Tamil

focalize in Tamil

குவமையத்திற் சென்றிணையும் படி செய், ஒளிக்கதிர்களை ஒருமுகப்படுத்து

Forms of focalize

third-person singular presentfocalizes
present participlefocalizing
past participlefocalized
pastfocalized

Origin of focalize

From focal + -ize.

Words formed from focalize

Questions about focalize

What does focalize mean?
Focalize means to focus, or to adjust a focus.
What is focalize in Tamil?
Focalize in Tamil is குவமையத்திற் சென்றிணையும் படி செய், ஒளிக்கதிர்களை ஒருமுகப்படுத்து. See Focalize meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is focalize?
Focalize is a verb.
What is the past tense of focalize?
The past tense of focalize is focalized.

Words near focalize in the dictionary

  1. focalism
  2. focalities
  3. focality
  4. focalization
  5. focalizations
  6. focalize
  7. focalized
  8. focalizer
  9. focalizers
  10. focalizes
  11. focalizing

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