attention

Etymology

From Middle English attencioun, borrowed from Latin attentio, attentionis, from attendere, past participle attentus (“to attend, give heed to”); see attend.

noun

1. (uncountable) Mental focus.
   Please direct your attention to the following words.
   Lesper Killey was at her shoulder, jerking at the wash-faded denim of her jumper to get her attention. 1959, Mari Sandoz, “Bone Joe and the Smokin' Woman”, in Hostiles and Friendlies: Selected Short Writings
   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. 2012-03, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87
2. (countable) An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
   For some time past I have been the recipient of very marked attentions from a young lady. 1910, Stephen Leacock, “How to Avoid Getting Married,”, in Literary Lapses
3. (uncountable, military) A state of alertness in the standing position.
   The company will now come to attention.
4. (uncountable, machine learning) A technique in neural networks that mimics cognitive attention, enhancing the important parts of the input data while giving less priority to the rest.
   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. 2021, Savas Yildirim, Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu, Mastering Transformers[…], Packt Publishing Ltd, page 26

intj

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.