Definition of "attention" in English

noun

1. (uncountable) Mental focus.

   • Please direct your attention to the following words.

2. (countable) An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.

3. (uncountable, military) A state of alertness in the standing position.

   • The company will now come to attention.

4. (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.

interjection

1. (military) Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position.

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.