attribute
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Latin attributus past participle of attribuere.
Noun
attribute (plural attributes)
- A characteristic or quality of a thing.
- His finest attribute is his kindness.
- (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.
- In the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket".
- (computing) The applicable option selection; a variable or a value.
- This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.
- (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
- (computing, programming) A semantic item with which a method, etc. may be decorated.
- There are some more implementations which use C# attributes to define custom attributes specific to the AOP engine. Then the classes that need to be intercepted will be decorated with these custom attributes.
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:characteristic
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Related terms
Translations
characteristic or quality
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grammar: word qualifying a noun
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computing: the applicable option selection
Verb
attribute (third-person singular simple present attributes, present participle attributing, simple past and past participle attributed)
- To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 278:
- Hākim's atypical actions should not be attributed to Islam as much as to insanity, which eventually led him to proclaim himself as Allah, whereupon he was murdered by outraged fellow Muslims.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 278:
- To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.
- This poem is attributed to Browning.
Derived terms
Translations
to associate ownership or authorship with
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External links
- attribute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- attribute in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911