Update API Descriptions - Round 1

What does this MR do and why?

Adds a range of descriptions to API related files.

This collects changes to a large number of files missing attribute descriptiuons, but there are still a few outstanding items.

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Add missing API descriptions (#573418 - closed) Google sheet working notes

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