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, for example by destroying the equipment. A defending force may defend themselves, surrender, or launch a counter-attack. Military science concerns itself with the study and of the diverse technical, psychological, and practical phenomena that encompass the events that make up warfare, especially armed combat. ... An enemy or foe is a relativist term for an entity that is seen as forcefully adverse or threatening. ... A territory is a defined area (including land and waters), usually considered to be a possession of an animal, person, organization, or institution. ... This page discusses common devices known as tools, for other meanings see Tool (disambiguation) Modern hammer A tool is, among other things, a device that provides a mechanical or mental advantage in accomplishing a task. ... A German Thrash metal band formed in Lörrach, Germany in 1983. ... The words defense or defence can refer to any of the following: For defense of a doctoral dissertation see thesis committee For the military term see defense (military) Civil defense measures and emergency preparedness In politics, defense may be a euphemism for war For legal defense see defense (legal) For... Surrender is when soldiers give up fighting and become prisoners of war, either as individuals or when ordered to by their officers. ... A counter attack is a tactic used by defending forces when under attack by an enemy force. ...

This term is also used with similar meaning in various games. A game is a recreational activity involving one or more players, defined by a) a goal that the players try to reach, and b) some set of rules that determines what the players can do. ...

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. Audio can mean: sound that can be heard electronics or other signals of frequencies audible to humans (about 20--20,000 Hz) broadcasting or reception of sound high-fidelity sound reproduction sound recording and reproduction in general I hear in Latin This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which... A reaction is the following: In physics, a reaction (physics) is defined by Newtons third law: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The idea that any given force has a pair or opposite force. ... An envelope detector is a device which is used to demodulate AM signals. ... Note: This article is about audio level compression, which reduces the dynamic range of audio signals. ... A noise gate is an electronic device that is used to control the volume of an audio signal. ... Decomposition is the reduction of bodies and other formerly living organisms into simpler forms of matter; and most particularly to the fate of the body, after death. ...

Also the title of a Poem by Seigried Sassoon: See ssAttack for more information. A Poem by Siegfried Sassoon, from The Old Huntsman AT dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun In the wild purple of the glowring sun, Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one, Tanks creep and topple forward to the wire. ...

See also

• defense
• counterattack
• envelope (disambiguation)