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Revision as of 10:53, 27 August 2006 by Steve Farrell (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Attack has a variety of meanings, including:
- 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
- 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")
- Attack!, the name of a board game developed by Eagle Games
- Attack (song), a song by the band System of a Down
- Myocardial infarction, also called a heart attack
- Attack No.1, a manga about volleyball
- Attack 25, a TV Quiz by TV Asahi
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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