Attribute

What is proper to a living organism or an object. An attribute * (or properties) is information * that characterizes an entity * (or object). For example, the object "Wastewater treatment plant" is characterized by properties including its size, type, etc. Data dictionaries established by the National Service for Water Data and Reference-dataset Management (Sandre) include entities characterized by attributes * . An attribute * can be physically translated into a field of a database * .