Attributes

1. Characteristic of a file or document. When referring to an attribute within MS-DOS or Windows, the attribute is the properties of the file. Additional information of available attributes and the attrib command can be found on our attrib page. 
2. When referring to an attribute within a word processing program, you are referring to a characteristic of a character, word or line, such as an underlined word.
3. Finally, in Database management systems, attribute is sometimes used as a synonym for field.

Also see: Permissions, Read-only, Read/Write, Write