attention

noun

1. 1

   Mental focus.

   Please direct your attention to the following words.

   One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.

   Lesper Killey was at her shoulder, jerking at the wash-faded denim of her jumper to get her attention.

   But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.

2. 2

   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.

3. 3

   A state of alertness in the standing position.

   The company will now come to attention.

4. 4

   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.

interjection

1. 1

   Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position.

2. 2

   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.

Forms

plural

attentions