Attachment

/əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/ · noun

Meaning

The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
2. A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.
3. A dependence, especially a strong one.
4. A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
5. The means by which something is physically attached.
6. (computing) A file sent along with a message, usually an email.
7. (law) Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
8. (meteorology) The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.

Example Sentences

The “implantation window” is a short, specific phase during which attachment of the blastocyst occurs.

I have such an attachment towards my fiancé!

Through every other kind of drug experience, however, ran his attachment to alcohol.

Zimchenko's phone had a tape attachment, […]

[The umbilical cord is] the attachment connecting the fetus with the placenta.

attachment of earnings

2009, Jakke Mäkelä, Eero Karvinen, Niko Porjo, Antti Mäkelä and Tapio Tuomi, Attachment of Natural Lightning Flashes to Trees: Preliminary Statistical Characteristics, published in the Journal of Lightning Research, volume 1

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