Sentence examples for foci from inspiring English sources

Viewed obliquely, however, their foci are on other parts of the panel.

Historically, Christian ethical teaching has had two biblical foci, the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20 1 17; Deuteronomy 5 6 21) and the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5 7); the emphasis on one or the other has varied across time and space.

General skin pigmentation increases, localized pigmented foci appear mysteriously, and acne lesions often develop.

Because there was more than one station on the Moon, it was possible to use the arrival times of P and S waves at the lunar stations from the moonquakes to determine foci in the same way as is done on the Earth.

Most of these effects occur on solid ground, but, since most earthquake foci are actually located under the ocean bottom, severe effects are often observed along the margins of oceans.

After the Buddha's death the first foci for this sort of veneration seem to have been his relics and the stupas that held them.

There were two essential foci of public religion: the king and the gods.

Any such path has this same property with respect to a second fixed point and a second fixed line, and ellipses often are regarded as having two foci and two directrixes.

The hyperbola, however, because of its symmetry, has two foci.

Another definition of an ellipse is that it is the locus of points for which the sum of their distances from two fixed points (the foci) is constant.

If c is taken as the distance from the origin to the focus, then c2 = a2 - b2, and the foci of the curve may be located when the major and minor diameters are known.