Attack
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Attack can mean:
- In military strategy, an attempt to actively strike at the enemy, as opposed to a defensive plan of stopping enemy attacks. The attempt may be to conquer (or deny to enemy use) enemy territory, installations, personnel, or equipment.
- Criticism, to point out the flaws in something.
- In music, the onset of a note (also called an "attack-point").
- In audio and radio, the reaction time of an envelope detector in audio level compression.
Attack can also refer to:
- Attack!, a 2003 board game developed by Eagle Games.
- "Attack (song)", a song by the band System of a Down.
- Attack!! (album), a 2002 album by Yngwie J. Malmsteen.
- Myocardial infarction, a heart attack, a disease in which the blood supply to the heart is interrupted.
- Attack Records (UK), a vanity record label of Sanctuary Records for the singer Morrisey.
- Attack No. 1, a Japanese manga and anime about volleyball.
- Attack 25, a TV Quiz by TV Asahi.
- Attack!, a Japanese laundry detergent made by the Kao Corporation.
- The Attack, a newspaper published by Berlin Gau of NSDAP since 1927.
[edit] See also
- Warfare
- Military science
- Defense (military)
- Counterattack
- Envelope detector
- Interonset interval, the timing between attacks.
