attribute

Meaning

1. A characteristic or quality of a thing.
2. (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun, a qualifier.
3. That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
4. An option or setting belonging to some object.
5. A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
6. A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
7. To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.
8. To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.

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Sources

1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data