Property (disambiguation)

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Property is the ownership of land, resources, improvements or other tangible objects, or intellectual property.

Property may also refer to:

Philosophy and science

  • Property (philosophy), in philosophy and logic, an abstraction characterizing an object
  • Material properties, properties by which the benefits of one material versus another can be assessed
  • Chemical property, a material's properties that becomes evident during a chemical reaction
  • Physical property, any property that is measurable whose value describes a state of a physical system
  • Semantic property
  • Thermodynamic properties, in thermodynamics and materials science, intensive and extensive physical properties of substances
  • Mental property, a property of the mind studied by many sciences and parasciences

Computer science

  • Property (programming), a type of class member in object-oriented programming
  • .properties, a Java Properties File to store program settings as name-value pairs
  • Window property, data associated to a window in the X Window System
  • Property of a Resource Description Framework class, possessing a value domain and range
  • Linear time property, a property that a computer system must satisfy

Law and politics

  • Real property, a piece of land defined by boundaries to which ownership is usually ascribed, including any improvements on this land
  • Property rights (economics), a discussion of the role of property in economic theory
  • National Register of Historic Places property types, a site designated and classified by its type on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
  • Personal property, property that is moveable

Other uses

  • Property (novel), a novel by Valerie Martin
  • Theatrical property (commonly "prop") a portable object seen on stage or film set
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