English Dictionary

attachment

/əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/

noun

The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching. / A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something. / A dependence, especially a strong one.

Please find the attachment for your reference.

意味（1）

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

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

意味（2）

A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.

I have such an attachment towards my fiancé!

意味（3）

A dependence, especially a strong one.

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

意味（4）

A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.

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

意味（5）

The means by which something is physically attached.

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

意味（6）

(computing) A file sent along with a message, usually an email.

意味（7）

(law) Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.

attachment of earnings

意味（8）

(meteorology) The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.

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