Attribute vs. Parameter — What's the Difference?

A property or characteristic of an object.

A value that influences the behavior of a function.

A distinguishing trait or quality.

A variable listed in a function definition.

An inherent or associated characteristic.

A specific limit or boundary.

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

A constant in an equation that varies in other equations of the same general form, especially such a constant in the equation of a curve or surface that can be varied to represent a family of curves or surfaces.

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

One of a set of independent variables that express the coordinates of a point.

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

One of a set of measurable factors, such as temperature and pressure, that define a system and determine its behavior and are varied in an experiment.

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

Usage Problem A factor that restricts what is possible or what results

(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 factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

A characteristic or quality of a thing.

(Statistics) A quantity, such as a mean, that is calculated from data and describes a population.

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

Usage Problem A distinguishing characteristic or feature.

(grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.

A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.

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

(sciences) A variable that describes some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.

An option or setting belonging to some object.

(statistics) Any measured quantity of a statistical population that summarises or describes an aspect of the population.

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

(machine learning) A variable of a model that is trained by a machine learning algorithm.

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(programming) An input variable of a function definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time.

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

An actual value given to such a formal parameter.

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

A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.

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

(geometry) In the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate.

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).

(crystallography) The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.

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.

(crystallography) The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.

Reputation.

A constant number which is part of a theory, function, or calculation, whose value is not determined by the form of the theory or equation itself, and may in some cases be arbitrary assigned.

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

A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family.

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

Any constant number which is required to calculate values of observed phenomena according to a theory, but the value of which must be determined by experiment, and cannot be calculated from the fundamental assumptions of the theory. In general, a theory which has a large number of parameters, though it may accurately predict experimental results, is considered as having less explanatory power and as being less esthetically pleasing than a theory with fewer parameters.

A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished;

The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane; also, the fundamental axial ratio for a given species.

An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity

The limits, guidelines, or assumptions from within which an activity is carried out; as, new arrivals need to learn the parameters of the research in our department.

Attribute or credit to;

A variable used in a calculation within a computer program which must be assigned a value before the calculation can be performed; as, let's plug in the parameters and see what the result is.

Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme;

A characteristic or element, especially one used as a criterion for evaluation or judgment; as, a useful parameter for determining efficiency.

A quality, feature, or inherent part.

A constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves

A specification that defines properties of an object.

Any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance

A quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data

A factor that defines a system and determines its behavior.

An element that helps in defining or classifying something.

It can lead to incorrect results or errors in the program.

It's passed to a function or method to influence its operation.

Depending on their mutability, some attributes can be changed.

Parameters are placeholders in function definitions, while arguments are actual values passed.

They allow for dynamic behavior and reusability of functions.

It's a property or characteristic of an object.

Typically, inherent or defined properties of an object are its attributes.

Yes, objects can have multiple attributes defining their characteristics.

They are often accessed using dot notation, like object.attribute.

No, some attributes can be hidden or protected, depending on the design.

Yes, functions can accept multiple parameters.

Attributes define state or properties, while methods define behavior or actions.

Some programming languages allow for default parameters if no argument is provided.