Focus

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

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

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Science and technology

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

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

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

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Arts