attachment

noun

/əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/

Etymology

From French attachement. By surface analysis, attach + -ment.

borrowed from attachement

Definitions

1
The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
- The “implantation window” is a short, specific phase during which attachment of the blastocyst occurs.
2
A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.
- I have such an attachment towards my fiancé!
3
A dependence, especially a strong one.
- Through every other kind of drug experience, however, ran his attachment to alcohol.
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1. 4
  A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
  - Zimchenko's phone had a tape attachment, […]
2. 5
  The means by which something is physically attached.
  - [The umbilical cord is] the attachment connecting the fetus with the placenta.
3. A file sent along with a message, usually an email.
4. 7
  Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
  - attachment of earnings
5. 8
  The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward)…
  The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
  - 2009, Jakke Mäkelä, Eero Karvinen, Niko Porjo, Antti Mäkelä and Tapio Tuomi, Attachment of Natural Lightning Flashes to Trees: Preliminary Statistical Characteristics, published in the Journal of Lightning Research, volume 1

The neighborhood

Derived

aeolian attachment, attachment disorder, attachment of earnings, attachment parenting, attachment therapy, chemoattachment, cryoattachment, misattachment, nonattachment, non-attachment, overattachment, postattachment, preattachment, preferential attachment, reactive attachment disorder, reattachment, shower attachment, unattachment, writ of attachment

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at attachment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at attachment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at attachment

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA