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third-person singular simple present defocuses or defocusses, present participle defocusing or defocussing, simple past and past participle defocused or defocussed
(transitive) To cause (a lens, or a beam of light or particles, etc.) to be out of focus. examples
uncountable
The process of going out of focus. examples
(optics) The distance by which the focal point is in front of (positive defocus) or beyond (negative defocus) the image or target surface. quotations examples
Fundamental to the concept of recovering the depth by measuring defocus is the relationship between the focused and the defocused images of a scene.
2012, Subhasis Chaudhuri, A. N. Rajagopalan, Depth From Defocus: A Real Aperture Imaging Approach, page 16