Attack Attack

Attack - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Abuse, Accept, Access, Action, Affect, Affection, Aggression, Ailment, Algorithm, Ambush, Amok, Apoplexy, Arrangement

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 either defend themselves or launch a counter-attack.

This term is also used with similar meaning in various games.

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.

Variant of attach. But cooler. As in "attack olly to WoW and break on new threads".

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Example Usage of Attack

tipstwet: Penguins president recovering after heart Attack (AP) http://bit.ly/jbPpz
xxjosie: "we'll Attack at the crack of dawn!"
10thAmendment: @victoria_29 #fthood Our country is under Attack from within as much as from without these days, borders open wider than w/ GWB.
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