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attraction

noun
/əˈtɹækʃn̩/UK

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.? Latin trahō Latin attrahō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin attractiōder. Old French attractionbor. Middle English attraccioun English attraction From Middle English attraccioun, from Old French attraction, from Latin attractio from past participle of attrahō (= ad + trahō), equivalent to attract + -ion.

  1. derived from attractio
  2. derived from attraction
  3. inherited from attraccioun

Definitions

  1. The tendency to attract.

    • The Moon is held in its orbit by the attraction of the Earth's gravity.

  2. The feeling of being attracted (to something).

    • I felt a strange attraction towards the place.

  3. An event, location, or business that has a tendency to draw interest from visitors, and…

    An event, location, or business that has a tendency to draw interest from visitors, and in many cases, local residents.

    • The new mall should be a major attraction.
    • Star Tours is a very cool Disney World attraction.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.

    2. An error in language production that incorrectly extends a feature from one word in a…

      An error in language production that incorrectly extends a feature from one word in a sentence to another, e.g. when a verb agrees with a noun other than its subject.

The neighborhood

Derived

aesthetic attraction, attractional, basin of attraction, chemoattraction, coattraction, Coulomb attraction, counterattraction, fatal attraction, genetic sexual attraction, interattraction, inverse attraction, law of attraction, local attraction, paronymic attraction, photoattraction, reattraction, split attraction model, star attraction, tourist attraction, unattraction

Vish — recursive loop

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

10 hops · closes at attraction

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

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