Attack
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*
Heart attack, a medical term
*
Attack No.1, a manga of volleyball
*
Attack 25, a TV Quiz by TV Asahi
*
warfare*
combat*
defense (military)*
counterattack*
envelope detector
