Usually means: Central or most important point.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word focal:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. focal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. focal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. focal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. focal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. focal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Focal, focal: Wordnik
  7. focal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. focal: Wiktionary
  9. focal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. focal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. focal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. focal: Dictionary.com
  13. focal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. FOCAL (Hewlett-Packard), FOCAL (programming language), FOCAL (spacecraft), Focal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Focal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. focal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. focal: Rhymezone
  18. Focal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. focal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. focal: Free Dictionary
  21. focal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. focal: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Focal (disambiguation), focal: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FOCAL: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. FOCAL, Focal (disambiguation): Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Focal: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. focal: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  6. focal: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. Focal (disambiguation), focal: Medical dictionary
  8. Focal: Brain Injury
  9. Focal: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FOCAL: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOCAL: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See focally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus.
adjective:  (medicine) Limited to a small area.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (Wicca) An object that is used to focus concentration when performing magic.
noun:  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.
noun:  A representative of a group or class of people within an organizational system.
noun:  A sign or similar type of marketing material designed to draw attention to special deals.
noun:  The central or most important element of something; a focal element.
noun:  A major point of interest; an attraction.
noun:  An exemplar of a concept.

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