defocusing

Expanding the role of street committees beyond focusing on a single issue - crime - obviously carries the danger of defocusing such structures.

ANC Today 2008

Expanding the role of street committees beyond focusing on a single issue - crime - obviously carries the danger of defocusing such structures.

ANC Today 2008

The SACP said it had been aware since its 12th congress in July that the media had possession of an affidavit in which the allegations were made and which was to have been published "with the sole intention of derailing and defocusing our congress".

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

Nowhere near that level of concentration getting applied to a fair amount of my todo list, and my eyes defocusing every minute or so.

December 10th, 2004 2004

We view clipclip as much more complementary than defocusing.

ClipClip revives Clipmarks Debate - Freshblog 2006

Update: Yahoo blog post here discusses streamlining of entertainment group, although they are not talking much about defocusing on premium services.

2007 September Erick Schonfeld 2005

A quadrupole magnet provides focusing in one plane e.g. the x, z-plane and defocusing in the other plane, the y, z-plane.

Accelerators and Nobel Laureates 2001

So, like in optics where a defocusing and a focusing lens are combined to provide focusing,

Accelerators and Nobel Laureates 2001

As in optics where the combination of a focusing and defocusing lens can result in a net focusing, a pair of two quadrupole magnets can be designed to give a net focusing in both the x, z - and the y, z-planes.

Accelerators and Nobel Laureates 2001

In this way, a magnet defocusing the beam vertically is followed by a magnet focusing the beam vertically.

Accelerators and Nobel Laureates 2001