attachment

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   faithful support for a cause or political party or religion

   attachment to a formal agenda

2. 2
   noun

   The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.

   The “implantation window” is a short, specific phase during which attachment of the blastocyst occurs.

3. 3
   noun

   A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.

   I have such an attachment towards my fiancé!

4. 4
   noun

   A dependence, especially a strong one.

   Through every other kind of drug experience, however, ran his attachment to alcohol.

5. 5
   noun

   A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.

   Zimchenko's phone had a tape attachment, […]

6. 6
   noun

   The means by which something is physically attached.

   [The umbilical cord is] the attachment connecting the fetus with the placenta.

7. 7
   noun

   Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.

   attachment of earnings

8. 8
   noun

   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

Etymology

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