defocusing

The defocusing of regions of a picture where brightness is excessive.

The plasma has an index of refraction lower than one, and causes a defocusing of the laser beam.

Anne had begun instrumenting the patients, using the data to guide the deFocusing, and afterward to monitor for stroke and infection.

Deflection fields bend the lines of force (with negligible defocusing), and the electrons follow the lines of force.

The dynamic Kingdon Trap has an additional AC voltage that uses strong defocusing to permanently store charged particles.

CW ISAR imaging or in some cases preprocessing prior to a FMCW ISAR transform an eliminate dispersive defocusing of the target image.

They gradually demonstrated more and more evidence of a defocusing of attention as the task went on, consistent with the view that although performance was not disrupted by lapses, habituation was leading to a marked drop in arousal level in these subjects.