Usually means: Characteristic or quality of something.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. attribute: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. attribute: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. attribute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. attribute: Collins English Dictionary
  5. attribute: Vocabulary.com
  6. Attribute, attribute: Wordnik
  7. attribute: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. attribute: Wiktionary
  9. attribute: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. attribute: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. attribute: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Attribute, attribute: Dictionary.com
  13. attribute (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. attribute: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Attribute (computing), Attribute (research), Attribute (role-playing games), Attribute: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Attribute: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. attribute: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. attribute: Rhymezone
  19. attribute: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. attribute: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. attribute: Free Dictionary
  22. attribute: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. attribute: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. attribute: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. attribute: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  3. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Attribute: Management Dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  3. attribute: Legal dictionary

Computing (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. attribute: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. attribute: Netlingo
  3. Attribute: Database Glossary
  4. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  5. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  6. Webopedia (No longer online)
  7. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  8. attribute: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. attribute: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. attribute: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. attribute: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. attribute: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (attribute)

▸ noun:  A characteristic or quality of a thing.
▸ noun:  An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.
▸ noun:  (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.
▸ noun:  (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
▸ noun:  (computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object.
▸ noun:  (programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
▸ noun:  (computer graphics, dated) A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
▸ verb:  To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.
▸ verb:  To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.

Similar:
dimension, ascribe, impute, assign, property, object, trait, descriptor, attr, ascription, more...

Opposite:
detract, diminish, discredit, disregard, belittle

Types:
physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, professional, academic, creative, financial, more...

Phrases:
attribute to, File attribute, Alt attribute, attribute sampling, attribute bias, more...

Adjectives:
important, essential, single, divine, particular, common, key, multi, only, second, special

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Similar:
dimension, ascribe, impute, assign, property, object, trait, descriptor, attr, ascription, more...

Opposite:
detract, diminish, discredit, disregard, belittle

Types:
physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, professional, academic, creative, financial, more...

Phrases:
attribute to, File attribute, Alt attribute, attribute sampling, attribute bias, attribute specific rate, attribute translation system, cost driver attribute, relation-valued attribute, more...

Adjectives:
important, essential, single, divine, particular, common, key, multi, only, second, special

Colors:
    blue,     red,     green,     yellow,     purple, more...



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