FromFrenchattachement. Bysurface analysis,attach +‎-ment.

• IPA^(key):/əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/

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attachment (countable anduncountable,pluralattachments)

1. The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
   • 2005, Rebecca N. Baergen,Manual of Benirschke and Kaufmann's Pathology of the Human Placenta, page71:

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

2. A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.

   I have such anattachment towards my fiancé!

3. Adependence, especially a strong one.
   • 2003, Griffith Edwards,Alcohol: The World's Favorite Drug, page63:

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

4. A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
   • 1978, Walter H. Wager,Time of reckoning, page194:

     Zimchenko's phone had a tapeattachment,[…]

5. The means by which something is physically attached.
   • 2012, Sinikka Elliott,Not My Kid: What Parents Believe about the Sex Lives of Their Teenagers, page46:

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

6. (computing) Afile sent along with a message, usually anemail.
7. (law) Taking a person'sproperty to satisfy a court-ordereddebt.

   attachment of earnings

8. (meteorology) The act or process by which any (downward)leaderconnects to any available (upward)streamer in alightning 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 theJournal of Lightning Research, volume 1

Borrowed fromEnglishattachment.

• IPA^(key):/ɛˈtɛtʃmənt/,/ɑˈtɛtʃmənt/

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• Hyphenation:at‧tach‧ment

attachment m orn (pluralattachments)

1. attachment(to an email)

   Synonym:bijlage

2. (psychology)attachment, personalbonding