attribute

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 13.13 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A characteristic or quality of a thing.

   His finest attribute is his kindness.

2. noun An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.

   The eagle and the bolt of lightning are attributes of Jove.

3. noun A word that qualifies a noun.
4. noun That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
5. noun An option or setting belonging to some object.

   This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.

6. noun A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.

   Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used.

7. noun A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
8. verb To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.; to affix.

Similar words

ascribe impute assign property dimension characteristic trait designate attribution accord

Often followed by

of to the is this it a in that

Word family

attributable attributed attributes attributing attribution