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An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "assign, bestow," from Latin attributus , past participle of attribuere "assign to, add, bestow;" figuratively "to attribute, ascribe, impute," from ad- "to" + tribuere "assign, give, bestow" (see tribute ). Related: Attributed ; attributing .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In computing , an attribute is a specification that defines a property of an object , element, or file. It may also refer to or set the specific value for a given instance of such. For clarity, attributes should more correctly be considered metadata . An ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A characteristic or quality of a thing. 2 (context grammar English) A word that qualifies a noun, a qualifier. 3 (context logic English) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident. 4 (context computing English) An option ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN success ▪ I attribute Guruji's healing success to two main factors. ▪ Q: To what do you attribute this success ? ▪ Many successful companies in the most advanced industrial countries would attribute much of their ...
Usage examples of attribute.
Ames fair value formula, two of the components thereof were accorded special emphasis, with the second quickly surpassing the first in terms of the measure of importance attributed to it.
When a variation is of the slightest use to a being, we cannot tell how much of it to attribute to the accumulative action of natural selection, and how much to the conditions of life.
This tradition, as we saw in Part V, contained values for the rate of precessional motion that were so accurate and so consistent it was extremely difficult to attribute them to chance.
I sometimes stole a corner glance at him, and encountering his fiery, eager stare, looked another way from pure horror and affright, which he, doubtless in character, attributed to nothing more than maiden modesty, or at least the affectation of it.
What is common to all the sacraments is attributed antonomastically to this one on account of its excellence.
The episcopal and monarchical constitution was declared to be apostolic, and the attribute of successor of the Apostles was conferred on the bishop.
As for good fame, it is either deserved and then is due to the services done and to the merit of those appraising them, or it is undeserved, and then must be attributed to the injustice of those making the award.
Hence, according to the selection effected among concepts, and the relative weight which is attributed to them, we get the antinomies between which a philosophy of analysis must for ever remain oscillating and torn in sunder.
The Jewish doctrine, differing in this from all the other Oriental creeds, and even from the Alohayistic legend with which the book of Genesis commences, attributed the creation to the immediate action of the Supreme Being.
Eternal God, whom men wrong, when they deprive Him of what properly can be attributed to Him only, and transfer it to other names and persons.
They went back to the remotest antiquity among the Greeks, and were attributed by some to Bakchos himself, and by others to Orpheus.
Malevolent Being in the early ages of the world, and the fall of man is attributed in the Boundehesch to an apostate worship of him, from which men were converted by a succession of prophets terminating with Zoroaster.
In the theology of the Phrygians and Lydians, the ASII were born of the marriage of the Supreme God with the Earth, and Firmicus informs us that the Phrygians attributed to the Earth supremacy over the other elements, and considered her the Great Mother of all things.
The dogma of Hermes is found almost entire in the writings attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite.
The great plague which wasted Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and reappeared in the seventeenth, had been identified with a disease which yields to enlightened treatment, and its ancient virulence was attributed to ignorance of hygiene, and the filthy habits of a former age.