attention

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a courteous act indicating affection

   My many attentions were left unnoticed.

2. 2
   noun

   the faculty or power of mental concentration

   keeping track of all the details requires your complete attention

3. 3
   noun

   a general interest that leads people to want to know more

   They were the center of attention.

4. 4
   noun

   Mental focus.

   Please direct your attention to the following words.

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   A state of alertness in the standing position.

   The company will now come to attention.

7. 7
   noun

   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.

8. 8
   noun

   the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something

Etymology

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 *-tisder. Proto-Italic *-tjō 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.