can we have one attribute with multiple values in an eav design?

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i am doing a database design using EAV. I am facing an issue when i try to model an entity with attribute having multiple values?

For example

Entity

id | name | description

1 | configuration1 | configuration1

Attribute

id | entityId | name | type

1 | 1 |att1 | string

2 | 1 |att2 | int

3 |1 | att3 | List (How will i model this?)

Value

id | attributeId | value

1 | 1 | a

2 | 2 | 1

3 | 3 | b

4 | 3 | c

5 | 3 |d

Is this the correct way to handle list of values?

Please provide any helpful link to model this?

Thanks

Shekhar

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