attribute vs cardinality

attribute

noun
  • A characteristic or quality of a thing. 

  • That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident. 

  • A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated. 

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

  • A word that qualifies a noun. 

  • An option or setting belonging to some object. 

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

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

cardinality

noun
  • The number of terms that can inhabit a type; the possible values of a type. 

  • The number of elements a given set contains. 

  • The status of being cardinalitial 

  • The property of a relationship between a database table and another one, specifying whether it is one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many. 

How often have the words attribute and cardinality occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )