attention
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *tend-der. Proto-Italic *tendō Latin tendō Latin attendō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin attentiōbor. Middle English attencioun English attention From Middle English attencioun, borrowed from Latin attentio, attentionis, from attendere, past participle attentus (“to attend, give heed to”); see attend. Equivalent to attend + -tion.
- derived from attentio
- inherited from attencioun
Definitions
Mental focus.
- Please direct your attention to the following words.
An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something,…
An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
- She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper.
- For some time past I have been the recipient of very marked attentions from a young lady.
A state of alertness in the standing position.
- The company will now come to attention.
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A kind of prioritisation technique in neural networks that assigns soft weights between…
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.
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…
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.
The neighborhood
- synonymadvertence
- synonymadvertency
- synonymattention
- synonymconsideration
- synonymheed
- synonymheedfulness
- synonymmark
- synonymmind
- synonymnote
- synonymnotice
- synonymobservance
- synonymobservation
- antonymapathy
- antonyminattention
- antonymneglect
- antonymoversight
- neighborattentive
- neighborheads up!
- neighbornotable
- neighborpay attention
- neighborponder
Derived
at attention, attentional, attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, attention economy, attention getter, attention-grabbing, attentionless, attention line, attention seeker, attention-seeker, attention-seeking, attention span, attention whore, attract attention, care and attention, center of attention, centre of attention, cross-attention, disattention, draw attention, hyperattention, meta-attention, nonattention, overattention, pay attention, preattention, self-attention, snap to attention, stand at attention, stand to attention, thank you for your attention to this matter, unattention, underattention
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at attention. 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 attention. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at attention
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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