attention

== English == === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /əˈtɛn.ʃn̩/ === Noun === attention (countable and uncountable, plural attentions) (uncountable) Mental focus. Synonyms: heed, notice; see also Thesaurus:attention (countable) An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest. (uncountable, military) A state of alertness in the standing position. (uncountable, machine learning) 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. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Collocations ==== ==== Translations ==== === Interjection === attention (military) Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position. 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. ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “attention”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “attention”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === Antonetti, tentation == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin attentiōnem. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /a.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃/ === Noun === attention f (uncountable) attention (mental focus) vigilance Synonym: vigilance attention (concern for) attention (interest in) Synonyms: curiosité, intérêt consideration, thoughtfulness ==== Derived terms ==== attentionnel faire attention prêter attention ==== Related terms ==== attendre attentif === Interjection === attention ! look out! watch out! careful! === Further reading === “attention”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === tentation