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focalizing

focalizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about focalizing

What is focalizing the present participle and gerund of?
Focalizing is the present participle and gerund of focalize.

Words near focalizing in the dictionary

  1. focalize
  2. focalized
  3. focalizer
  4. focalizers
  5. focalizes
  6. focalizing
  7. focally
  8. focaloid
  9. focaloids
  10. focals
  11. focastle

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