Attributes

1. Characteristic of a file or document. When referring to an attribute within MS-DOS, the attribute is the properties of the file. Additional information of available attributes 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