The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.
I have such an attachment towards my fiancé!
A dependence, especially a strong one.
A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
The means by which something is physically attached.
A file sent along with an email.
Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
attachment of earnings
The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning 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 the Journal of Lightning Research, volume 1