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| attribute | |
| 1. n. A characteristic or quality of a thing. |  |
| His finest attribute is his kindness. | |
| 2. n. (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun, a qualifier. | |
| In the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket". | |
| 3. n. (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident. | |
| 4. n. (computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object. | |
| This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero. | |
| A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten. | |
| 5. n. (programming) 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. | |
| 6. n. (computer graphics, dated) A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display. | |
| 7. v. To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc. | |
| 8. v. To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone. | |
| This poem is attributed to Browning. | |
