attending

adj.

1. Being the principal physician supervising a patient's care.
2. Being a physician on the regular medical staff of a hospital.

n.

1. The principal physician supervising a patient's care.
2. A staff physician in a hospital.

adjective

Occurring or existing with: accompanying, attendant, coincident, concomitant, concurrent. See accompanied.

Readiness to perceive, as in looking or listening for relevant stimuli. Focusing of the sense organs is involved.

IN BRIEF: n. - The act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.).

You do this by pressing the flesh of your customers, attending seminars and trade shows, reading journals, and browsing the internet. — Guy Kawasaki, Source: Rules For Revolutionaries: The Capitalist Manifesto for Creating and Marketing New Products and Services, Page: 113-114

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others
  Synonym: attention

Meaning #2: the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.)
  Synonym: attendance

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The adjective attending has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: being present at meeting or event
  Synonym: in attendance

Meaning #2: serving attendance on someone
  Synonyms: ministering, ministrant

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