Focal

Quick meaning: Focal is an adjective meaning Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus (definite location).

Meaning

Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus (definite location).

More Meanings

1. Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus of attention.
2. (medicine) Limited to a small area.
3. (Wicca) An object that is used to focus concentration when performing magic.
4. The individual who is the focus of a study or review, when the study or review is based on that individual's interactions with others.
5. A representative of a group or class of people within an organizational system.
6. A sign or similar type of marketing material designed to draw attention to special deals.
7. (geometry, obsolete) One of two lines perpendicular to the axis of a cone such that the cosine of the angle between the line and the axis is equal to the ratio of the cosines o the semiangles of the cone.

Example Sentences

The rash was focal.

The contamination was focal.

And no witch leaves behind focals.

I use focals for aura work sometimes.

Word Forms

• focals

Synonyms for focal

Depending on context, synonyms include central.

Antonyms for focal

Common opposites include widespread, locoregional, systemic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include central, point, crucial, converging, converge, linking.

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