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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Attribution \At'tri*bu"tion\, noun [L. attributio: cf. F. attribution.]
1. The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.
2. That which is ascribed or attributed.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
attribution
noun
1: assigning some quality or character to a person or thing; "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription to me of honors I had not earned" [syn: {ascription}]
2: assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso" [syn: {ascription}]
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