attended

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /əˈtɛndɪd/
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Verb

attended

simple past and past participle of attend

Adjective

attended (comparative more attended, superlative most attended)

Having a person or people present; with someone in attendance.
- 1918, Canadian Transport Commission. Transport Committee, Judgements, Orders, Regulations and Rulings - Volume 8, page 181:
  A person using a coin-box gets just the same, if not more rapid service, than at an attended station because he calls central direct, instead of communicating his wishes first to the attendant and awaiting the result of her effort.
- 1964, Claude W. Brown, “Letters”, in Official Record of the International Union of Operating Engineers, page 10:
  Our question is whether the August meeting will constitute the "date of election" and will count as an attended meeting within the meaning of the above Article.
- 2005, Teofilo L. Lee-Chiong, Sleep: A Comprehensive Handbook, page 236:
  The task force suggested that type 3 studies performed in an attended in-laboratory environment may rule in or exclude OSAH in patients without significan comorbid conditions if the records are scored by a knowledgeable technician or clinician, and that a type 1 study (in-laboratory PSG) should be performed in symptomatic patients with a negative type 3 study.
- 2011, George Durzi, Michael Greenlee, Professional Unified Communications Development with Microsoft Lync Server 2010, page 462:
  When transferring a call, you will typically want to perform an attended transfer, where the application only disconnects from the call after the called party picks up .
- 2019, Santiago Gallino, Antonio Moreno, Operations in an Omnichannel World, page 293:
  In most countries, attended home delivery accounts for the largest share of last-mile delivery.
Being the focus of attention; receiving attention.
- 2004, Nikil R. Pal, Neural information processing, page 394:
  An object in an attended spot is encoded by the winner neuron in the recognition map layer.
- 2004, Alice Cronin-Golomb, Patrick R. Hof, Vision in Alzheimer's Disease, page 251:
  Another important issue in the study of attention is how an attended stimulus is processed differently from an unattended stimulus, that is, the effects of attention.
- 2014, Steven J. Luck, An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique, page 77:
  The figure shows the ERP recorded at temporal-occipital electrodes in response to an attended stimulus that was preceded by either an attended stimulus at the same location or an unattended stimulus at a different location.
(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) That attends.

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