attention
An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
Other meanings
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.
Related words
- attentionless
- disattention
- hyperattention
- nonattention
- overattention
- preattention
- unattention
- underattention
- attentional
- attention economy
- at attention
- attention deficit disorder
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "attentio" (attentio, attentionis).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “attention” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.