| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To ascribe, impute or accredit.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To assign, allocate or allot. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To feature or character. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To impart or bestow. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To allow, authorize, concede, permit or vouchsafe. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To attach, affix or append. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To deliver or inject.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Present participle conjugation of the verb attribute.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (attribute) | 1. Attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare".[Wordnet]. 2. Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme.[Wordnet]. 3. To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: attributing, attributed, attributes, attributor, attributors, attributingly and attributedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being characteristic.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being incriminating. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being token. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being fetching. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being flagging.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ATTRIBUTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ATTRIBUTING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Ascribing; yielding or giving as due; imputing.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of attribute. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: attribute
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Alt attribute | The Alt attribute is a way for HTML documents to specify text as an alternative for graphics. The use of Alt attributes (also called "Alt tags") is mandatory according to W3 standards, although many web developers forget them. (references) | ||
| Attribute (network management) | In network management, an attribute is a property of a managed object that has a value. (references) | ||
| Attribute clash | Attribute clash was a display artifact caused by limitations in the graphics circuitry of early colour 8-bit home computers - infamously the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. (references) | ||
| Attribute grammar | When constructing a language translation tool, such as a compiler, an attribute grammar is the formal expression of the syntax-derived semantic checks associated with a grammar. It represents the rules of a language not explicitly imparted by the syntax. (references) | ||
| File attribute | A file attribute is a piece of data that describes or is associated with a computer file. For example, an operating system often keeps track of date a file was created and last modified, as well as the file's size and extension (and what application to open it with). File permissions are also kept track of. The user may attach other attributes themselves, such as comments or color labels, as in Apple Computer's Mac OS X (version 10.3 or later). (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: attribute
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Activity Attribute | Aerospace | A parameter for an Oracle Workflow function activity that controls how the function activity operates. A DELPHI controller or systems administrator can define an activity attribute by displaying the activity's Attributes properties page in the Activities window of Oracle Workflow Builder. A DELPHI controller or systems administrator can assign a value to an activity attribute by displaying the activity node's Attribute Values properties page in the process window. (references) | |
| Attribute certificate | Physics | A certificate that asserts something about its subject, namely, that the subject possesses the named attribute. An attribute certificate usually applies to a particular use-condition. Although no such use-condition need exist, an attribute certificate without a corresponding use-condition is useless in Akenti. An attribute certificate allows a user attribute certifier to provide a user characteristic that matches a use-condition in a natural and convenient way. (references) | |
| Attribute Discovery Sampling | Trade | A special case of attribute sampling in which the occurrence of a single error constitutes a failure of the universe. This feature, which produces a sample size that is minimal in general, is achieved by ignoring any risk of erroneously rejecting an acceptable universe. This type of statistical sampling provides an objective method of indicating the risk or probability of locating at least one irregularity or characteristic in question. (references) | |
| Attribute instance | Military | A particular value of an attribute associated with an entity. (references) | |
| Attribute of an element | Computing | A characteristic quality, other than type or content. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Attribute pool | Military | A list of potential attributes. Each attribute name should appear once in the list. You may assign each attribute a unique identifying number. (references) | |
| Attribute Sampling | Trade | A type of statistical sampling used for compliance testing whereby sample items are evaluated for compliance or attributes. Items either are or are not (yes or no) in compliance. This type of sampling reaches a conclusion on the frequency of occurrence of a particular attribute in a universe. (references) | |
| Attribute survey | Administration | Survey to determine the important components of the recreational experience. (references) | |
| Attribute Table | Administration | Information about the features on a map, stored in rows and columns. Each row relates to a single feature; each column contains the values for a single characteristic. (references) | |
| Attribute Translation System | Computing | Attribute Translation System | |
| Attribute value assertion | Computing | Proposition, which may be true, false or undefined, concerning the values (or perhaps only the distinguished values) of an entry. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Cost Driver Attribute | Computing | ||
| Data attribute | Business | A characteristic of a data element such as length, value, or method of representation. (references) | |
| Item Type Attribute | Aerospace | A feature of a particular Oracle Workflow item type, also known as an item attribute. An item type attribute is defined as a variable whose value can be looked up and set by the application that maintains the item. An item type attribute and its value is available to all activities in a process. (references) | |
| Many-To-Many Attribute | Aerospace | In Oracle Financial Analyzer, a relationship between one or more values of one base dimension with one or more values of a second base dimension. For example, if you have a Many-to-Many attribute definition where the first base dimension is Organization and the second base dimension is Line Item, then a single organization can be related to several line items, and a single line item can be related to several organizations. (references) | |
| Non-key attribute | Administration | Attributes that are not part of a key, but nevertheless describe some characteristic of an entity. (references) | |
| Non-spatial Attribute | Administration | Information related to an items that has no geographic information associated with it (e.g. the cost of a land parcel). (references) | |
| One-To-Many Attribute | Aerospace | A relationship in Oracle Financial Analyzer where one or more values of a base dimension are related to a single value of an aggregate dimension. For example, if you have a One-to-Many attribute definition where the base dimension is Organization and the aggregate dimension is Level, each organization can be related to only a single level. (references) | |
| Performance Attribute | Military | See Attribute. (references) | |
| Typographical attribute | Computing | An attribute pertaining to the style and corps of letters. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: attribute | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Attribute | 25 | Alt attribute | 6 | |
| Attribute (role-playing games) | 18 | Attribute | 25 | |
| Attribute clash | 15 | Attribute (computing) | 3 | |
| Template Attribute Language | 12 | Attribute (network management) | 2 | |
| Alt attribute | 6 | Attribute (role-playing games) | 18 | |
| Longdesc attribute | 5 | Attribute clash | 15 | |
| Attribute grammar | 5 | Attribute domain | 2 | |
| Tax attribute | 4 | Attribute grammar | 5 | |
| Attribute sequence | 4 | Attribute sequence | 4 | |
| Attribute (computing) | 3 | File attribute | 2 | |
| File attribute | 2 | Longdesc attribute | 5 | |
| Attribute domain | 2 | Name attribute | 2 | |
| Attribute (network management) | 2 | Tax attribute | 4 | |
| Name attribute | 2 | Template Attribute Language | 12 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
