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ATTENTION

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Definitions

1. when interest becomes fixed, we have attention. (COHA, p. 99)

2. a motion which must remain at an optimum effort. Attention is aberrated by becoming unfixed and sweeping at random or becoming too fixed without sweeping. (Scn 0-8, p. 75)