ATTRIBUTE

Attribute

An attribute is a piece of data that describes to what extent a fictional character in a role-playing game possesses a specific natural, in-born characteristic common to all characters in the game. That piece of data is usually an abstract number or, in some cases, a set of dice. Some games use different terms to refer to an attribute, such as statistic, characteristic or ability.

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attribute

Noun

  1. A characteristic or quality of a thing.
    His finest attribute is his kindness.
  2. A word that qualifies a noun.
    In the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket".
  3. The applicable option selection; a variable or a value.
    This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.
  4. That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
  5. A semantic item with which a method, etc. may be decorated.
    There are some more implementations which use C# attributes to define custom attributes specific to the AOP engine. Then the classes that need to be intercepted will be decorated with these custom attributes.

Verb

  1. To ascribe (something) a given cause, reason etc.
  2. To associate ownership or authorship of (something) someone.
    This poem is attributed to Browning.


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