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In military science, an attack is the aggressive attempt to conquer enemy territory, installations, personnel, or equipment or to deny the enemy the use of territory, installations, personnel, or equipment, for example by destroying the equipment. A defending force may defend themselves, surrender, or launch a counter-attack.
The word attack is used with similar meaning in various games.
In music the attack or attack-point is the beginning or onset of a note or event. See interonset interval.
In audio and radio, attack is the reaction time of an envelope detector, such as in audio level compression or noise gates. The opposite is decay or falloff.
The word attack is often used to mean criticize or accuse. This usage may have started in newspaper headlines, where "attack" typesets into less text line length than "criticize".
See heart attack.
Attack is the title of a poem by Siegfried Sassoon: See ssAttack for more information.
See also
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