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   attribute

   verb

   • 1. regard something as being caused by: "he attributed the firm's success to the efforts of the managing director"
   • ▪ ascribe a work or remark to (a particular author, artist, or speaker): "the building was attributed to Inigo Jones"
   • ▪ regard a quality or feature as characteristic of or possessed by: "ancient peoples attributed magic properties to certain stones"

   noun

   • 1. a quality or feature regarded as a characteristic or inherent part of someone or something: "flexibility and mobility are the key attributes of Britain's army" Similar qualityfeaturecharacteristictraitelementaspectpropertyhallmarkmarkdistinctionsigntelltale signsure signidiosyncrasypeculiarityquirk
   • ▪ a material object recognized as symbolic of a person, especially a conventional object used in art to identify a saint or mythical figure: "it was not until the end of the fifteenth century that the sandglass was depicted as the attribute of Father Time" Similar symbolindicatormarksignhallmarktrademarkstatus symbol
   • 2. a piece of information which determines the properties of a field or tag in a database or a string of characters in a display.
   • 3. an attributive adjective or noun.
   • 4. a real property which a statistical analysis is attempting to describe.

   Word Origin late 15th century: the noun from Old French attribut; the verb from Latin attribut- ‘allotted’: both from the verb attribuere, from ad- ‘to’ + tribuere ‘assign’.

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