Usually means: Intensely focused or engrossed attention.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word riveted:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. riveted: Merriam-Webster
  2. riveted: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. riveted: Collins English Dictionary
  4. riveted: Vocabulary.com
  5. Riveted, riveted: Wordnik
  6. riveted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. riveted: Wiktionary
  8. Riveted, riveted: Dictionary.com
  9. riveted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Riveted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Riveted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. riveted: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. riveted: FreeDictionary.org
  14. riveted: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. riveted: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. riveted: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. riveted: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. riveted: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. riveted: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Rivet)

noun:  A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end.
noun:  (figuratively) Any fixed point or certain basis.
noun:  (obsolete) A light kind of footman's plate armour; an almain rivet.
verb:  (transitive) To attach or fasten parts by using rivets.
verb:  (transitive) To install rivets.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To command the attention of.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To make firm or immovable.
noun:  A surname from French.
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