Attention
intj, noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Mental focus. uncountable
"Please direct your attention to the following words."
- 2 the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something wordnet
- 3 An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest. countable
"She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper."
- 4 a courteous act indicating affection wordnet
- 5 A state of alertness in the standing position. uncountable
"The company will now come to attention."
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- 6 a motionless erect stance with arms at the sides and feet together; assumed by military personnel during drill or review wordnet
- 7 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. uncountable
"The attention mechanism is an important part of these models and plays a very crucial role. Before Transformer models, the attention mechanism was proposed as a helper for improving conventional DL models such as RNNs."
- 8 the faculty or power of mental concentration wordnet
- 9 the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others wordnet
- 10 a general interest that leads people to want to know more wordnet
- 1 Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position.
- 2 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.
Example
More examples"You must pay attention to his advice."
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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