A characteristic or quality of a thing.

"His finest attribute is his kindness."

(grammar) A word that qualifies a noun, a qualifier.

"In the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket"."

That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.

An option or setting belonging to some object.

"A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten."

A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.

"Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used."

A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.

To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.

To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.

"This poem is attributed to Browning."