meaning of attribute
1. To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).
2. That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.
3. Reputation.
4. A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.
5. Quality, etc. , denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.
6. attribute A named value or relationship that exists for some or all instances of some entity and is directly associated with that instance. Examples include the href attribute of an HTML anchor element, the columns of a database table considered as attributes of each row, and the members properties and methods of an object in OOP. This contrasts with the contents of some kind of container e. g. an array, which are typically not named. The contents of an associative array, though they might be considered to be named by their key values, are not normally thought of as attributes.
Related Words
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