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From French attachement. By surface analysis, attach + -ment.

countable, uncountable The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching. The “implantation window” is a short, specific phase during which attachment of the blastocyst occurs.
countable, uncountable A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something. I have such an attachment towards my fiancé!
countable, uncountable A dependence, especially a strong one. Through every other kind of drug experience, however, ran his attachment to alcohol.
countable, uncountable A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool. Zimchenko's phone had a tape attachment, […]
countable, uncountable The means by which something is physically attached. [The umbilical cord is] the attachment connecting the fetus with the placenta.
countable, uncountable A file sent along with a message, usually an email.
countable, uncountable Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt. attachment of earnings
countable, uncountable 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