___ point (what everything centers around)

Usage examples of focal.

The upper right canine was pure titanium and for Eigenvalue the focal point of the set.

The last thing we can afford is to have the focal point of a simple, reasonable old female asking for the right to decline Eldership on her own.

The Forest sits at the heart of a whirlpool, a focal point of dark fae that draws like to like, sucking all malevolent manifestations toward its, center.

Now, once again, in the push to translate his prediction theory into a viable production prototype, feedback emerged as the focal point and final obstacle in his war work with Bigelow.

The military used SniperEyes, with enormously extended focal ranges and multiple grades of monatomic lasers to assess wind speed, air density and so forth.

The ceiling was pale cream with delicate yet simple plasterwork, but it was the bed that was the true focal point.

Other clients have accomplished the same thing by procrastinating, forgetting key appointments, or losing their Focal Point notebooks.

The focal point of the chamber was a high-backed steel and plastic chair with some particularly malignant stim feeders built into the back, the arms, and the headrest.

The house was in a beautiful state of preservation, as was the elderly butler who presently opened the door, and led her, at his own pace, across the narrow hall and up a handsome staircase to the drawing room--an apartment which took up a major part of the first floor, with windows both back and front and a vast chimneypiece the focal point of its further wall.

He knew that in a short while the Invaders would discontinue their attempts to make an immediate capture, would conclude that he had found shelter, and would fall back on an inescapable slow search that could not help but root him out sooner or later soon, if he stayed this near the headquarters that would be the focal point for the expanding boxes of a square search.

But in their way they serve as focal points in the modern world, places where the technology and the psychology of hurriedness come together.

Now the steps were the focal point for local idlers and off-duty, out of work iceboat crew.

But where they joined the gravityless focal structure, they were scarcely thick-stemmed enough to enclose the elevator shafts that ran the quarter-mile length of each.

Henry Meachem, the pirate whose crews had interbred with Carib and Jamaican women, thereby populating the island, and whose treasure was the focal point of many tall tales.

Focal epilepsy starts with a wave of electrical activity in a relatively small group of neurons, from whence it spreads across much of the brain.