attribute

  1. Noun.  A characteristic or quality of a thing.
  2. Noun.  (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.
  3. Noun.  (computing) The applicable option selection; a variable or a value.
  4. Noun.  (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident..
  5. Noun.  (computing, programming) A semantic item with which a method, etc. may be decorated.
  6. Verb.  To ascribe (something) (term, to) a given cause, reason etc.
  7. Verb.  To associate ownership or authorship of (something) (term, to) someone.

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