bring to a focus

Fō′calise, to bring to a focus: to concentrate.—n.

This I bring to a focus with a lens, and then let it pass through a small hole in a piece of card.

But when the exercises had been duly gone through, then arose the original and powerful minds, to take full advantage of what had been gained by all the practising, and to concentrate and bring to a focus all the hints and lessons of art which had been gradually accumulating.

These the eye can bring to a focus, because it normally has a curvature for focussing parallel rays.

Now, it is the essential privilege of beauty to so synthesize and bring to a focus the various impulses of the self, so to suspend them to a single image, that a great peace falls upon that perturbed kingdom.