focalize

From focal +‎ -ize.

focalize (third-person singular simple present focalizes, present participle focalizing, simple past and past participle focalized)

1. To focus, or to adjust a focus.
2. To sharpen an image by focusing.
3. To concentrate on a particular location; to localize.
4. (narratology) To switch to a particular perspective (focalization).
   • 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 211:

     The protagonist of The Monkey Wrench foGang, George Washington Hayduke […] is a smelly, "hairy, bawdy, independent loner" (Barber 1996, 133) and disillusioned ex-Green Beret who acts as crass as the third-person narrator who often focalizes through him.

focalize

1. inflection of focalizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative