HOW TO PRONOUNCE
attention
/əˈtɛnʃən/
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What does attention mean?
noun
- Mental focus.
- An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
- A state of alertness in the standing position.
More meanings (3)
noun
- 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
- 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.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈtɛnʃən/
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See this word in context.
His eyes, too, were fixed on the tomb, and her arrival having been noiseless, she had not as yet attracted his attention.
She met his eyes for an instant, but was immediately constrained to give all her attention to the scene now going forward.
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The Heliumite shouted to attract the girl’s attention, and presently he was rewarded by seeing her turn and stand looking toward him.
In one circumstance only even the entreaties of Rebecca were unable to secure sufficient attention to the accommodation of the wounded knight.
Holmes’s card sent in to the manager ensured instant attention, and he was not long in acquiring all the information he needed.