Focus

Focus (: foci or focuses) may refer to:

Arts

 * Focus or Focus Festival, former name of the Adelaide Fringe arts festival in East Australia

Film

 * Focus, a 1962 TV film starring James Whitmore
 * Focus (2001 film), a 2001 film based on the Arthur Miller novel
 * Focus (2015 film), a 2015 film about con artists

Music

 * Focus (music), a musical technique also known as modal frame
 * Focus..., American music producer
 * Focus (band), Dutch progressive rock band

Albums

 * Focus (Stan Getz album), 1961 jazz album
 * Focus (Bill Hardman album), 1984 jazz album
 * Focus (Jan Akkerman & Thijs van Leer album), 1985
 * Focus (Cynic album), 1993 metal album
 * Focus (Chico Freeman album), 1994 jazz album
 * Focus (Souls of Mischief album), 1998 alternative hip-hop album
 * Focus (Holly Starr album), 2012 CCM album
 * Focus (Arthur Blythe album), 2002 jazz album
 * Focus (Diaura album), 2013 Japanese visual kei album

Songs

 * "Focus" (Ariana Grande song), 2015
 * "Focus" (Bazzi song), 2019
 * "Focus" (Craig David song), 2018
 * "Focus" (H.E.R. song), 2017
 * "Focus" (Jacob Whitesides song), 2016
 * "Focus / No Angel", a 2018 single by Charli XCX
 * "Focus", a song by Joe Budden
 * "Focus", a song by Susumu Hirasawa from Paranoia Agent Original Soundtrack
 * "Focus", a song by Kim Dong-han from D-Hours AM 7:03
 * "Focus", a song by 10 Years from Division
 * "The Focus", by Failure, from The Heart Is a Monster, 2015

Writing

 * Focus (encyclopedia), a 1958 Swedish language encyclopedia
 * Focus (German magazine), a German weekly news magazine
 * Focus (Italian magazine), an Italian monthly popular science magazine
 * Focus (Polish magazine), a Polish scientific monthly magazine
 * Focus (Christian magazine)
 * Focus (Ukrainian magazine), a national Ukrainian weekly news magazine
 * Focus Taiwan, of the Central News Agency
 * Focus (novel), a 1945 novel by Arthur Miller
 * BBC Focus, a monthly science and technology magazine
 * Fokus (magazine), a Swedish magazine
 * San Francisco Focus, a monthly magazine

Companies, brands, organizations

 * Anti-Nazi Council, a 1930s organisation operated by a group known as Focus in Defence of Freedom and Peace sometimes called the Focus Group, including Winston Churchill
 * Focus DIY, a UK chain of do-it-yourself stores
 * Focus.com, a business social networking platform
 * Focus Brands, American restaurant franchiser and operator
 * Focus Features, the art house films division of NBC Universal's Universal Studios
 * Focus Films, U.K. independent film producer
 * FOR Organizing Committee of the United States, an American post-Trotskyist group, known as FOCUS
 * Focus Humanitarian Assistance, an international emergency relief organization
 * Focus Ireland, Irish nonprofit organization providing services for homeless people
 * Focus on the Family, an American non-profit organization
 * Focus Services, an international call center company
 * Fellowship of Catholic University Students, a Catholic outreach program for American college students founded in 1997
 * Focus Software, former name of Zemax Development Corporation, a maker of optical design software
 * Focus Home Interactive, a French publisher of computer games
 * Families OverComing Under Stress, a stress management program
 * Focus Bikes, a German bicycle manufacturer
 * Ford Focus, an international Ford automobile
 * Focus (board game), an abstract strategy game
 * Samsung Focus, a smartphone manufactured by Samsung which runs Microsoft Windows Phone
 * Focus (Croatian political party), a political party in Croatia
 * The Focus Foundation, an American research and support foundation

Computing and mathematics

 * Focus (computing), which of a number of GUI elements currently accepts keyboard input
 * FOCUS, a database reporting program
 * HP FOCUS, a CPU architecture
 * Helicon Focus, an image software program
 * Focus (geometry), a key point in specifying a conic section or other plane curve
 * Firefox Focus, a privacy-focused browser from Mozilla
 * Focus number system, a logarithmic number system proposed in 1977

Social sciences

 * Focus or attention, selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things
 * Focus (linguistics), the way information in one phrase relates to information that has come before
 * Focus group, a form of qualitative research in which a group of people are asked about their attitude towards a product, service, concept, advertisement, idea, or packaging

Other sciences

 * Epileptic focus in epilepsy
 * Focus (earthquake), an earthquake's underground point of origin or hypocenter
 * Focus (optics), a point toward which rays are made to converge

Military technology

 * AGM-87 Focus, a U.S. Navy air-to-surface missile
 * Operation Focus, the Israeli name for the attack against the Egyptian Air Force in the Six-Day War

Other uses

 * Focus mitt, a padded target attached to a glove and usually used in training boxers and other combat athletes
 * Focus, in Final Fantasy XIII, a task given to L'Cie to grant eternal life upon completion, or the life of a mindless Cieth on failure
 * Fokus, a Danish political party
 * Focus (name)
 * FOCUS Program, a voluntary study program at numerous American universities
 * Focus (Warsaw), an office building in Warsaw, Poland