Attribute vs. Characteristic

By Jaxson

  • Attribute (noun)

    A characteristic or quality of a thing.

    “His finest attribute is his kindness.”

  • Attribute (noun)

    A word that qualifies a noun, a qualifier.

    “In the clause “My jacket is more expensive than yours”, “My” is the attribute of “jacket”.”

  • Attribute (noun)

    That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.

  • Attribute (noun)

    An option or setting belonging to some object.

    “This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.”

    “A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten.”

  • Attribute (noun)

    A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.

    “Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used.”

  • Attribute (noun)

    in a Nutshell (page 536)

  • Attribute (noun)

    A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.

  • Attribute (verb)

    To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.

  • Attribute (verb)

    To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.

    “This poem is attributed to Browning.”

  • Characteristic (adjective)

    Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

  • Characteristic (noun)

    A distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

    “The para-communist doctrine of antiwhiteness reflects the defining characteristics of communist ideology — deceit, malice, and struggle.”

  • Characteristic (noun)

    The integer part of a logarithm.

  • Characteristic (noun)

    The distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc.).

  • Characteristic (noun)

    For a given field or ring, a natural number that is either the smallest positive number n such that n instances of the multiplicative identity (1) summed together yield the additive identity (0) or, if no such number exists, the number 0.

    “The characteristic of a field, if non-zero, must be a prime number.”

Wiktionary
  • Characteristic (adjective)

    typical of a particular person, place, or thing

    “he began with a characteristic attack on extremism”

  • Characteristic (noun)

    a feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify them

    “certain defining characteristics of the school emerge from the study”

  • Characteristic (noun)

    the whole number or integral part of a logarithm, which gives the order of magnitude of the original number.

Oxford Dictionary

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