Focus

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What Wikipedia says

In geometrical optics, a focus, also called an image point, is a point where light rays originating from a point on an object converge. Although the focus is conceptually a point, physically the focus has a spatial extent, called the blur circle.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Focus (optics)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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