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For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.
James S. Coleman

Meaning of "foci" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FOCI

foci  [ˈfəʊkaɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FOCI

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Foci is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FOCI MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Focus

Focus, FOCUS, or foci may refer to: In science, mathematics or computing: ▪ Focus, selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things ▪ Focus, which of a number of GUI elements currently accepts keyboard input ▪ Focus, a point toward which light rays are made to converge ▪ Focus, a concept referring to the way information in one phrase relates to information that has come before ▪ Focus, an earthquake's underground point of origin or hypocenter ▪ FOCUS, a database reporting program ▪ FOCUS, a CPU architecture ▪ Helicon Focus, an image software program ▪ Focus, a focus of a conic section ▪ Samsung Focus, a smartphone manufactured by Samsung which runs Microsoft Windows Phone...

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FOCI


bronchi
ˈbrɒŋkaɪ
caille
kaɪ
chi
kaɪ
Ciskei
ˈsɪskaɪ
disci
ˈdɪskaɪ
elenchi
ɪˈlɛŋkaɪ
ensky
ɪnˈskaɪ
Gracchi
ˈɡrækaɪ
kai
kaɪ
kye
kaɪ
Mackay
məˈkaɪ
Malachi
ˈmæləˌkaɪ
Mordecai
ˌmɔːdəˈkaɪ
rhonchi
ˈrɒŋkaɪ
rocaille
rɒˈkaɪ
sakai
ˈsakaɪ
sky
skaɪ
Skye
skaɪ
spy-in-the-sky
ˌspaɪɪnðəˈskaɪ
streptococci
ˌstrɛptəʊˈkɒkaɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FOCI

focal plane
focal plane shutter
focal point
focal ratio
focalisation
focalise
focalization
focalize
focally
Foch
focimeter
focometer
focus
focus group
focus puller
focusable
focused
focused strategy
focuser
focusless

WORDS THAT END LIKE FOCI

abaci
arrivederci
Bertolucci
bocci
Carducci
Carracci
cerci
ci
da Vinci
farci
Fibonacci
genius loci
Gramsci
Leonardo da Vinci
lex loci
loci
Medici
Ricci
Vespucci
Vinci

Synonyms and antonyms of foci in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FOCI»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «foci» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of foci

Translation of «foci» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FOCI

Find out the translation of foci to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of foci from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «foci» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

焦点
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

focos
570 millions of speakers

English

foci
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

foci
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بؤر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

очаги
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

focos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

foci
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

foyers
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Foci
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schwerpunkte
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

초점
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Foci
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trọng tâm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குவியங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Foci
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

odakları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

foci
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ogniska
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

осередки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

focare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εστίες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

brandpunte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

foci
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

foci
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of foci

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FOCI»

The term «foci» is quite widely used and occupies the 27.251 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FOCI» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about foci

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QUOTES WITH «FOCI»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word foci.
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James S. Coleman
For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOCI»

Discover the use of foci in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to foci and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Foci: Interviews with Ten International Curators
Interviews and Introduction by Carolee Thea. Edited by Carolee Thea and Gregory Williams. Foreword by Barry Schwabsky.
Carolee Thea, 2001
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Guidelines on the Elimination of Residual Foci of Malaria ...
Elimination of the residual foci of malaria transmission is a dynamic process, taking place mainly during the late stage of the attack and consolidation phases of malaria elimination.
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, 2007
3
Fetal Disorders: Diagnosis and Management
Echogenic Foci Definition. Single or multiple echogenic foci may be noted within the fetal heart on ultrasound examination. The echogenic foci are usually localized to the papillary muscles or chordae of the atrial ventricular valve apparatus.
Boris M. Petrikovsky, 1999
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Fetal Cardiography
Figure 23.4 Endocardial echogenic foci. A 34-week fetus whose mother had high IgM reactivity for toxoplasma (1:4000). There are echogenic foci ('golf balls') within the left ventricle (LV), adjacent to the mitral subvalvular apparatus (arrows).
Simcha Yagel, Norman H. Silverman, Ulrich Gembruch, 2002
5
Gamma-H2AX Foci and the Measurement of Variation in ...
DNA double strand breaks produced by radiation or other agents results in massive phosphorylation of the H2AX histone variant in chromatin around the site of each break.
Takamitsu Kato, 2006
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The Impact of Folate Deficiency on Aberrant Crypt Foci ...
Pantea Dadyar. II. SPECIFIC AIMS The goal of this research is to determine the mechanism by which folate deficiency and base excision repair (BER) interact to increase the risk of colon cancer, and we aim to show the role of folate and BER ...
Pantea Dadyar, 2007
7
Psychological Processes Underlying the Relationship Between ...
Given such considerations, the primary purpose of the current study was to explore individual- and group-level psychological processes that underlie the relationship between transformational leadership and multi-foci OCBs. The basic  ...
Jeewon Cho, 2007
8
Carcinogenesis
Most progress has been made in the identification and characterization of preneoplastic liver lesions, in particular foci of cellular alteration and of more advanced nodular lesions, which may be used as endpoints in carcino- genicity studies ...
Michael P Waalkes, 1994
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Toxicology of the Liver, Second Edition
differentiate the various types of foci. Many of the foci contain more than one cell type; these should be diagnosed by the predominant cell type present. Nuclear characteristics can also serve as criteria in helping to differentiate types of foci; ...
Gabriel L Plaa, WR Hewitt, 1998
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Industrial security DOD cannot ensure its oversight of ...
FOCI cases and, therefore, had limited knowledge about how to verify foreign business transactions. Some industrial security representatives in one field office told us they do not always have the tools needed to verify if contractors are under  ...
United States, Senate, Committee on Armed Services, Government Accountability Office, Congress

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FOCI»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term foci is used in the context of the following news items.
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Journalists' Complicity In Hiding Those Guilty For MH17 By Eric …
And what about the black box and the other items of evidence that are so much the foci of the public's attention in the West? Well, not only will ... «CounterCurrents.org, Jul 15»
2
New documentary examines the stereotype of 'sounding gay' - KPCC
... at the University of Minnesota. One of his research foci is on gay speech styles, and he is featured in the documentary, “Do I Sound Gay?” ... «89.3 KPCC, Jul 15»
3
Melioidosis cases increase slightly in US
... after their return to the United States or could represent unidentified foci of locally acquired B. pseudomallei infections in the United States. «Healio, Jul 15»
4
The search for life beneath the ice: why we're going back to Europa
Galileo's extended mission became one of “fire and ice”: its twin foci were Io's vulcanism and Europa's icy oceans. The Europa fly-bys took the ... «The Conversation AU, Jul 15»
5
Sprint and Jump Clinic: Track and field icon Carl Lewis in Barbados …
During the short one-day camp, Lewis said that one of his major foci is simplicity. “Success often comes from simplicity.” With the short period of ... «Barbados Advocate, Jul 15»
6
CAA Taps Time Warner Exec as Chief Financial Officer
... and acquisitions — he has overseen Time Warner's global efforts in that area since 2008 — will bolster CAA's ongoing foci on expansion and ... «Hollywood Reporter, Jul 15»
7
Hybrid PET-MRI shows promise in evaluation of refractory focal …
All new PET/MR lesions were deemed to be clinically significant with concordant EEG and/or SPECT results as potential epileptic foci. «Epilepsy Research UK, Jul 15»
8
Galectin 3 regulates HCC cell invasion by RhoA and MLCK activation
The vascular invasion foci were counted in five fields each animal (Figure 2b). Significantly less vascular invasion was observed in the galectin ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
9
Surgical resection of peripheral odontogenic fibromas in African …
... pale pink, while the lesion on the right side had a diameter of approximately 11 mm and on its surface small foci of hyperemia were observed. «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
10
Analysis of Twitter responses indicates a preference for diversity in …
... then explored the topics and incidents that were the foci of these peaks and troughs. Our sample of Twitter users was compiled in three ways, ... «Democratic Audit UK, Jul 15»

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