The terms attribute and property refer to the same thing. In this article, I'll use the term attribute . An attribute of an object holds information that describes the object. Different objects have different types of attributes associated with them. The data in an object's attributes helps to completely describe each individual object.
Some attributes can hold more than one value.
These are called multi-valued attributes. For example, User objects can have up to 75 attributes, such as Login Name, Given Name, Last Name, Title, Address, Telephone Number, Fax Number, and so on. Examples of multi-valued attributes are Title and Home Phone, each of which can hold more than one value. The Title attribute can hold more than one title and the Home Phone can hold more than one telephone number. A Printer object, on the other hand, could have the Name, Network Address, and Print Server attributes.