Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of attributing, especially the act of establishing a particular person as the creator of a work of art.
- n. Something, such as a quality or characteristic, that is related to a particular possessor; an attribute.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of attributing, in any sense; ascription.
- n. That which is ascribed; attribute.
- n. Authority or function granted, as to a ruler, minister, or court.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of attributing something.
- n. An explicit or formal acknowledgment of ownership or authorship.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.
- n. That which is ascribed or attributed.
WordNet 3.0
- n. assigning some quality or character to a person or thing
- n. assigning to a cause or source
Etymologies
- From Middle French attribution, from Latin attributio. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Sobran seems to be unaware that lists of parallels such as he provides have long been looked at very skeptically in attribution studies, since writers in any era consciously or unconsciously influence each other and draw on common sources.”
“However, the issue of copying recipes without attribution is one that, sooner or later, all food writers must confront.”
“Wikipedia has a good page on the Shakespeare Apocrypha, “a group of plays that have sometimes been attributed to William Shakespeare, but whose attribution is questionable for various reasons”. (thx, jeffrey & nick) posted by Deron Bauman in art, history, international, language, literature, science | * | comment”
“Now the paragraph I just wrote, quoting a couple bits of the ReadWriteWeb post with attribution, is an example of fair use.”
“Like any science, the attribution is done by creating hypotheses about possible effects of each forcing, and then testing those hypotheses.”
“Consequently, the author ` s derivative right is to accuracy in attribution (whether explicit or implicit), not to attribution per se.”
“As a result, [t] he right to copy creative works, with or without attribution, is the domain of copyright, not of trademark or unfair competition.”
“That particular set of aphorisms have been attributed to Lincoln, but the attribution is erroneous.”
Think Progress » Kansas Attorney General Refuses To Sue Federal Government Over Health Care Reform
“This attribution has emotional origins, because logically, your attribution is far from the only possible motive for the regulation.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism
“You did not come to this attribution from a process of pure logic.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism
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