Definition of "attribute" []

• To relate to a particular cause or source; ascribe: attributed their failure to a lack of preparation. (verb-transitive)
• To regard as the work of a specified agent, place, or time: attributed the painting to Titian; attributed the vase to 18th-century Japan. (verb-transitive)
• A quality or characteristic inherent in or ascribed to someone or something. (noun)
• An object associated with and serving to identify a character, personage, or office: Lightning bolts are an attribute of Zeus. (noun)
• Grammar A word or phrase syntactically subordinate to another word or phrase that it modifies; for example, my sister's and brown in my sister's brown dog. (noun)

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• "_FLASH_CONTROL_IRQ Flash Control Event Interrupt Handlers Declaration The MPLAB C32 compiler gives us two options to declare a function as "the" default interrupt handler (vector 0) at a given interrupt priority (ipl1, for example), using either the attribute syntax as follows: void __attribute__ ((interrupt (ipl1), vector (0))) InterruptHandler (void)"
• "CDD = $CDD$ "where $attribute$ extracts an attribute from the current feature, and GDD, HDD, CDD keys are the titles of the data elements in the pie chart."
• "They are named in the name attribute and are described by the paramType attribute."