Translate attribute | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of attribute
verb
Pronunciation:
/əˈtriˌbyo͞ot/ regard something as being caused by (someone or something):he attributed the firm’s success to the efforts of the managing director the bombing was attributed to the IRA ascribe a work or remark to (a particular author, artist, or speaker):the building was attributed to Frank Lloyd Wright regard a quality or feature as characteristic of or possessed by (someone or something):ancient peoples attributed magic properties to certain stones
noun
Pronunciation:
/ˈatrəˌbyo͞ot/ 1a quality or feature regarded as a characteristic or inherent part of someone or something:flexibility and mobility are the key attributes of our army a material object recognized as symbolic of a person, especially a conventional object used in art to identify a saint or mythical figure.
2 Computing a piece of information that determines the properties of a field or tag in a database or a string of characters in a display.
3 Grammar an attributive adjective or noun.
4 Statistics a real property that a statistical analysis is attempting to describe.
