definition of trait

Nigeria
September 6, 2006 6:31am CST
can someone define trait for me ?
2 responses
• India
14 Oct 06
The word trait has several meanings: Generically, it refers to a characteristic or property of some entity. In biology, traits refer to genetically inherited features of organisms. In psychology, it refers to a component of personality as defined by Trait theory. charistics In computer science, traits refer to several things: In C++, a trait class is a class which is used to store metadata about some other datatype; typically for the benefit of templates. In several object oriented programming languages, a trait is a type of abstract type.
@coral999 (140)
• Australia
6 Sep 06
personality difference