arotahi
1. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to look in one direction, look steadily, focus on, zero in on, concentrate on, take aim.
Nō waenganui o te tekau tau atu i 1920, ka mutu te mahi a Meri Geddes i roto i ngā rōpū wāhine; huri kē ana ia ki te Hāhi hei arotahi māna i waho atu o tōna kāinga (TTR 1996:33). / In the mid 1920s Mary Geddes ended work in women's societies, turning her focus outside her home to the Church.
2. (noun) focus, concentration on.
Mai i te tau 1940, ko te arotahi o taua rōpū, ko te mana motuhake me te tino rangatiratanga o ngā Kuki Airani (TTR 1996:62). / From the 1940s onwards, the focus of the group was the independence and self-determination of the Cook Islands.
3. (noun) lens.
Ko tētahi wāhanga matua o te arotahi, ko tōna puare, te wāhi e uru atu ai te aho (RTA 2014:80). / An important part of the lens is its aperture, the place where the light enters.
Synonyms: mōhiti
arotahi topa
1. (noun) zoom lens.
He autaia te arotahi topa, inā e taea ana te whāroa o te arotahi te rāwekeweke kia rite ki te arotahi whārahi, kia rite rānei ki te arotahi whakatata, me ngā whāroa katoa ki waenganui (RTA 2014:81). / The zoom lens is pretty good because the length of the focus can be adjusted so that it's like a wide-angle lens, or like a telephoto lens, with all the distances in between.
whāroa arotahi
1. (noun) focal length.
Ko te whāroa o te arotahi, koia te tawhiti mai i te pū o te arotahi ki te haukotinga hihi, ki tua atu o te arotahi (RTA 2014:80). / The length of the focus is the distance from the centre of the lens to the place where the rays are intercepted, beyond the lens.
