attention
Forms
- Plural
- attentions
Definitions
1.Mental focus.
- Please direct your attention to the following words.
- Lesper Killey was at her shoulder, jerking at the wash-faded denim of her jumper to get her attention.
2.An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
- For some time past I have been the recipient of very marked attentions from a young lady.
- She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper.
3.A state of alertness in the standing position.
- The company will now come to attention.
4.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.
- 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.
1.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.
2.Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #664
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *ten-
Proto-Indo-European *tend-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *téndeti
Proto-Italic *tendō
Latin tendō
Latin attendō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō