attention
Mental focus.
Noun 4 meanings
Mental focus.
“Please direct your attention to the following words.”
An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
A state of alertness in the standing position.
“The company will now come to attention.”
A kind of prioritisation technique in neural networks that assigns soft weights between tokens from two (or more) input sequences in order to compute the required output.
Interjection 2 meanings
Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position.
A call for people to be quiet/stop doing what they are presently doing and pay heed to what they are to be told or shown.
Etymology
From Middle English attencioun, borrowed from Latin attentio, attentionis, from attendere, past participle attentus (“to attend, give heed to”); see attend. Equivalent to attend + -tion.
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ATTENTION at a glance
ATTENTION has 9 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (A 1 + T 1 + T 1 + E 1 + N 1 + T 1 + I 1 + O 1 + N 1) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #765 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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