атрибут(A characteristic of an object; A descriptive declaration that can be applied to programming elements such as types, fields, methods, and properties. Attributes are saved with the metadata of a .NET Framework file and can be used to describe code to the common language runtime or to affect application behavior at run time; A single characteristic of a dimension (SQL Server 2000) or hierarchy (SQL Server 2005). For example, color may be an attribute of a Product dimension/hierarchy; An XML structural construct. A name-value pair, separated by an equals sign, included inside a tagged element that modifies certain features of the element; For files, information that indicates whether a file is read-only, hidden, ready for archiving (backing up), compressed, or encrypted, and whether the file contents should be indexed for fast file searching; In screen displays, an element of additional information stored with each character in the video buffer of a video adapter running in character mode. Such attributes control the background and foreground colors of the character, underlining, and blinking; The name or structure of a field in a database entity. For example, the LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME, and PHONE are attributes of each record in a PhoneList entity. The size of a field and the type of information it contains are also attributes of a database record)
поле класса-сущности(в отличие от столбца таблицы базы данных; русс. термин "класс-сущность" взят для перевода из кн.: Парамонов И.В. Разработка приложений баз данных с использованием средств объектно-реляционного отображения: метод. указания Alex_Odeychuk)
атрибут(Форма информации, обеспечиваемая Службой каталогов X.500 (X.500 Directory Service). Базовая информация о каталогах состоит из записей, каждая из которых содержит один или несколько атрибутов. Каждый атрибут содержит тип идентификатора и одно или несколько значений. Каждая операция чтения каталога (Read) может отыскивать некоторые (или все) атрибуты в заданной записи)
атрибут(A symbolic object which is conventionally used to identify a particular saint. In the case of martyrs, it is usually the nature of their martyrdom)
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