ATTRIBUTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does attribution mean? 

• ATTRIBUTION (noun)
  The noun ATTRIBUTION has 2 senses:

1. assigning some quality or character to a person or thing

2. assigning to a cause or source

  Familiarity information: ATTRIBUTION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATTRIBUTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assigning some quality or character to a person or thing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

ascription; attribution

Context example:

the ascription to me of honors I had not earned

Hypernyms ("attribution" is a kind of...):

categorisation; categorization; classification; sorting (the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "attribution"):

zoomorphism (the attribution of animal forms or qualities to a god)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Assigning to a cause or source

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

ascription; attribution

Context example:

he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso

Hypernyms ("attribution" is a kind of...):

categorisation; categorization; classification; sorting (the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories)

Attribute:

attributable (capable of being attributed)

unascribable; unattributable (not attributable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "attribution"):

animatism (the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones)

imputation (the attribution to a source or cause)

externalisation; externalization (attributing to outside causes)

Derivation:

attribute (decide as to where something belongs in a scheme)

 Context examples 

Definite adverse event attribution to study product or procedure is established when there is a clear-cut temporal association between product or procedure administration and adverse event, and no other possible cause is present.

(Definite Adverse Event Attribution to Product or Procedure, NCI Thesaurus)

EXAMPLE(S): decomposition (component), pre-condition, post-condition, sequel (replaces, modifies), attribution (cause and effect).

(Document Version Relationship Type Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

EXAMPLE(S): decomposition (component), pre-condition, post-condition, sequel (replaces, modifies), attribution (cause and effect) In a Regulated Product Submission (RPS), support of versioning can be accomplished by having two different revisions of a document related to each other through a replaces relationship.

(Document Version Relationship, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)