ATTRIBUTE

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An attribute in general and in philosophy is an abstraction of a characteristic of an entity or substance, i.e. an essential property, as opposed to a non-necessary (contingent) property, which is called a mode.

• In art an "attribute" is an object that identifies a figure; most commonly it refers to objects held by saints in religious paintings that indicate which saint is being represented.
• In social sciences, an attribute is a characteristic of a variable. A variable like gender would have two attributes: male and female.
• An attribute may also refer to a deity's aspect; see Negative theology.

In computing:

• Attribute (computing), a factor of an object or other kind of entity.
• A property inherent in a database entity or associated with that entity for database purposes (in database management and directory services).
• Attribute (network management), a property of a managed object that has a value.
• A parameter of an element In SGML-based markup languages like HTML and XML, as in an HTML element.

In gaming:

• Attribute (role-playing games), a type of statistic for a fictional character.
• Attribute (game), a board game.

Sources

• Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188

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