attention
Pronunciation: /əˈtɛn.ʃn̩/
The English word “attention” has 6 meanings listed here.
noun
- Mental focus.
- An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
- A state of alertness in the standing position.
- 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.
interjection
Etymology
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.
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