attention

1. (uncountable) Mental focus.Examples: "Please direct your attention to the following words."; "Most of the pictures of common life that we meet with in books are drawn in the shape of novels, with the view of attracting the attention of indolent readers; the question with authors being, not of what can I inform my neighbour by which he may be improved in head or heart, mind or morals? but what is the fashion of public taste? that by pandering to it I may secure sale and applause! Hence the present jumble of brains, the rack of invention to excite, supply, and cram the public appetite, all so agape after tales of the marvellous, till the picture of life is overwrought, and the image of nature bedaubed to disgust."; "In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity."Synonyms: heed, noticeuncountable

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

3. (uncountable, military) A state of alertness in the standing position.Examples: "The company will now come to attention."uncountable

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.Examples: "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."uncountable