Attribute vs. Characteristic — What's the Difference?

To regard as arising from a particular cause or source; ascribe

Typical of a particular person, place, or thing

To regard (a work, for example) as belonging to or produced by a specified agent, place, or time

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

A quality or characteristic inherent in or ascribed to someone or something.

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

An object associated with and serving to identify a character, personage, or office

Being a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; distinctive

(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.

A feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait.

A characteristic or quality of a thing.

(Mathematics) The integral part of a logarithm as distinguished from the mantissa

An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.

(Mathematics) The least number of times the multiplicative identity in a ring needs to be added to itself to reach the additive identity, or, if the additive identity is never reached, zero. The integers have a characteristic of zero; the integers modulo 12 have a characteristic of 12.

(grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.

Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

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

A distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

An option or setting belonging to some object.

(mathematics) The integer part of a logarithm.

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

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

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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.

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

Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive.

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

A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an element of character; that which characterized.

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

The integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm.

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).

A prominent aspect of something;

That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.

A distinguishing quality

Reputation.

The integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2

A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.

Any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions

Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.

Typical or distinctive;

A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished;

An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity

Attribute or credit to;

Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme;