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The word "attribute" means 'To think of as coming from or belonging to a particular person or thing'. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

The word "attribute" can refer to:

• An attribute in philosophy, property, an abstraction of a characteristic of an entity or substance
• An attribute in art, an object that identifies a figure, most commonly referring to objects held by saints - see emblem
• An attribute in social sciences, a characteristic of a variable
• An attribute, a deity's aspect; see Negative theology

In computing: For other uses, see Philosophy (disambiguation). ... The word property, in philosophy, mathematics, and logic, refers to an attribute of an object; thus a red object is said to have the property of redness. ... abstraction in general. ... Look up Characteristic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An entity is something that has a distinct, separate existence, though it need not be a material existence. ... An emblem consists of a pictorial image, abstract or representational, that epitomizes a concept - often a concept of a moral truth or an allegory. ... The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study human aspects of the world. ... Negative theology - also known as the Via Negativa (Latin for Negative Way) and Apophatic theology - is a theology that attempts to describe God by negation, to speak of God only in terms of what may not be said about God. ...

• Attribute (computing), a factor of an object or other kind of entity
• SMART attribute Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology
• Attribute (network management), a property of a managed object that has a value
• An attribute, a property inherent in a database entity or associated with that entity for database purposes. This definition is especially relevant for dimensional tables.
• An attribute, a parameter of an element in SGML-based markup languages like HTML and XML

In gaming: In computing, attributes are entities that define properties of objects, elements, or files. ... Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology, or S.M.A.R.T., is a monitoring system for computer hard disks to detect and report on various indicators of reliability, in the hope of anticipating failures. ... In network management, an attribute is a property of a managed object that has a value. ... This article is about computing. ... A dimension table is a data warehousing concept. ... The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is a metalanguage in which one can define markup languages for documents. ...

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

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