Attribute
Definitions
- A characteristic or quality of a thing.
- An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.
- A word that qualifies a noun.
- That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
- An option or setting belonging to some object.
- A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
- A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
Equivalents
Examples
“His finest attribute is his kindness.”
“The eagle and the bolt of lightning are attributes of Jove.”
“This packet has its coherency attribute set⟳ to zero.”
“A file⟳ with the read-only attribute set⟳ cannot be overwritten.”
“Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate⟳ a warning if they are used.”
“This attribute is used to declare⟳ in metadata that the attributed method or class requires SocketPermission of the declared form⟳.”
“[…] you can only carry⟳ two objects, your attributes clash when you walk⟳ past multi-coloured objects and your enemies fly⟳ up and down from the ceiling.”
“If any of the video buffer's background attribute bits are on, MONO converts the attribute to 70h (inverse video).”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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