Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause (a beam or a lens) to deviate from accurate focus.
- noun The act or result of causing a lens to deviate from accurate focus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To deliberately cause a
lens , or abeam oflight orparticles , to be out offocus
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Examples
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If you defocus from the embedded Zoho Writer you pretty much kill it.
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If you defocus from the embedded Zoho Writer you pretty much kill it.
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By then, Mr. Hastings had also become concerned that getting into the hardware business would "defocus" the company, according to Anthony Wood, a former Netflix executive in charge of the project at the time.
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When they were initially viewed they were absolutely razor sharp, then after a second or two, they almost seemed to "defocus" .... as though someone had applied a crude amount of NR.
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When they were initially viewed they were absolutely razor sharp, then after a second or two, they almost seemed to "defocus" .... as though someone had applied a crude amount of NR.
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The Cyber-shot DSC-WX10/B model comes with 16.2-megapixel, 7x optical zoom, 2.8-inch screen, full HD 1080/60i video, background defocus, manual control, 3D Sweep Panorama.
The Hottest New Technologies Of 2011 Wendy Tanaka 2011
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The Cyber-shot DSC-WX10/B model comes with 16.2-megapixel, 7x optical zoom, 2.8-inch screen, full HD 1080/60i video, background defocus, manual control, 3D Sweep Panorama.
The Hottest New Technologies Of 2011 Wendy Tanaka 2011
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The Cyber-shot DSC-WX10/B model comes with 16.2-megapixel, 7x optical zoom, 2.8-inch screen, full HD 1080/60i video, background defocus, manual control, 3D Sweep Panorama.
The Hottest New Technologies Of 2011 Wendy Tanaka 2011
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Perhaps to make the NEX-5 easier for consumers to understand, Sony renamed the depth-of-field control to "background defocus."
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I noticed the ebook cover a few days ago, actually, and had been puzzling over it, trying to figure out if I could defocus my eyes and have a face appear in it.
Book Cover Smackdown! 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream' Edition 2010
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