To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to impute to someone.
1. Allouer.
2. Donner.
3. Conférer. Attribuer un prix.
4. (Pron.) S'approprier. S'attribuer tous les mérites.
Attribuer.
1. Avancer. Prêter une somme.
2. Accorder. Prêter attention.
3. Supposer. Prêter des intentions.
4. (Pron.) Consentir. Se prêter ŕ un interview.
ETYM Latin attributum.
An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity.
1. Propriété. Un attribut des métaux.
2. Symbole. Un attribut de sa fonction.
3. (Logique) Prédicat.
1. Valeur. Un objet de bonne qualité.
2. Supériorité.
3. Mérite. Un concert de qualité.
4. Aptitude. Avoir les qualités requises.
5. Condition. Agir en qualité de mandataire.
In archeology, a characteristic element of a particular culture or group; or a specific element of an individual artifact, such as the rim of a pot or the base of a projectile point, or a type of decoration, raw material, or color.
A component of a structured type or relation.
1. In a database record, the name or structure of a field. For example, the files LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME, and PHONE would be attributes of each record in a PHONELIST database. The size of a field or the type of information it contains would also be attributes of a database record.
2. In screen displays, an element of additional information stored with each character in the video buffer of a video adapter running in character mode. Such attributes control the background and foreground colors of the character, underlining, and blinking.
3. In markup languages such as SGML and HTML, a name-value pair within a tagged element that modifies certain features of that element. See also HTML, SGML.