focal

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/ˈfəʊ.kl̩/

adjective

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Pomegranates are increasingly popular in cooking and baking, whether as juice, garnish, or focal ingredient.
The focal point of the magnifying glass was only two inches from the object.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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The tree was the focal point of the village square.
The contamination was focal.
The disturbances at the periphery became a focal concern later in the investigation.

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Again, if the plane of the impressed couple intersects the mean plane between N and C, it will envelope the cone whose focals are ON, ON′, and whose internal axis is therefore OA.
1877, James Booth, A Treatise on Some New Geometrical Methods, page 209
Choose your focals to blend well with the intention of your magical work or ritual.
2000, Sirona Knight, Celtic Traditions: Druids, Faeries, and Wiccan Rituals, page 193
And no witch leaves behind focals.
2019, Faith Hunter, Circle of the Moon, page 27
I use focals for aura work sometimes.
2022, Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked
As predicted, focals who were paired with peers produced significantly higher levels of reasoning at posttest ( M = 35.34, SD = 4.44 ) than did focals paired with adults.
1992, Merrill-Palmer Quarterly - Volume 38, page 198

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Learned borrowing from New Latin focālis. By surface analysis, focus + -al.