focalizar

• Hyphenation: fo‧ca‧li‧zar

focalizar (first-person singular present focalizo, first-person singular preterite focalizei, past participle focalizado)

1. (transitive) to focus (to cause light to converge at a single point)
2. (intransitive, of light rays) to converge at a single point
3. (transitive) to focus (to adjust the lens of an optical instrument)
4. (with em) to focus (to concentrate one’s attention)

   Synonyms: focar, concentrar-se

• foco

Borrowed from English focalize.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /fokaliˈθaɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /fokaliˈsaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: fo‧ca‧li‧zar

focalizar (first-person singular present focalizo, first-person singular preterite focalicé, past participle focalizado)

1. to focus
2. (photography) to focus
3. (investment) to target

• “focalizar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10