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attending

adj
/əˈtɛndɪŋ/

Etymology

From attend + -ing.

  1. derived from attendō
  2. derived from atendre — “to await, wait for; to expect; to intend”
  3. inherited from attenden
  4. suffixed as attending — “attend + ing”

Definitions

  1. That attend or attends

    That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.

  2. Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.

  3. Attendant, concomitant.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a…

      A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.

      • She's an attending in gastroenterology at Mass General.
      • All the new interns had heard of his operative speed, his finesse under the attending's glare, and his memorization of the current surgical literature.
      • All too often when taking a history, residents and attendings in a hurry will simply use the cut-and-paste function to save time and bypass asking potentially important questions that have been asked before.

    2. present participle and gerund of attend

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at attending. 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.

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

8 hops · closes at attending

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

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