Property Property is a system of rights that gives people legal control of valuable things, and also refers to the valuable things themselves. Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property may have the right to consume, alter, share, re ...

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 logic and philosophy (especially metaphysics), a property is a characteristic of an object; for example, a red object is said to have the property of redness. The property may be considered a form of object in its own right, able to possess ot ...

, 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 A physical property is any property of a physical system that is measurable. The changes in the physical properties of a system can be used to describe its changes between momentary states. A quantifiable physical property is called ''physical ...

, any property that is measurable whose value describes a state of a physical system * Thermodynamic properties, in thermodynamics and materials science, intensive and extensive physical properties of substances * Mathematical property, a property is any characteristic that applies to a given

set Set, The Set, SET or SETS may refer to: Science, technology, and mathematics Mathematics *Set (mathematics), a collection of elements *Category of sets, the category whose objects and morphisms are sets and total functions, respectively Electro ...

* Semantic property *

Mental property A mental state, or a mental property, is a state of mind of a person. Mental states comprise a diverse class, including perception, pain/ pleasure experience, belief, desire, intention, emotion, and memory. There is controversy concerning the exac ...

, a property of the mind studied by many sciences and parasciences

Computer science

Property (programming) A property, in some object-oriented programming languages, is a special sort of class member, intermediate in functionality between a field (or data member) and a method. The syntax for reading and writing of properties is like for fields, but ...

, a type of class member in object-oriented programming * .properties, a Java Properties File to store program settings as name-value pairs *

Window property The X Window System core protocolRobert W. Scheifler and James Gettys: ''X Window System: Core and extension protocols, X version 11, releases 6 and 6.1'', Digital Press 1996, RFC 1013Grant EdwardsAn Introduction to X11 User Interfaces is the base ...

, data associated to a window in the X Window System * Property of a

Resource Description Framework The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a method to describe and exchange graph data. It was originally designed as a data model for metadata by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It provides a variety of syntax notations and formats, of whi ...

class, possessing a value domain and range *

Linear time property In model checking, a branch of computer science, linear time properties are used to describe requirements of a model of a computer system. Example properties include "the vending machine does not dispense a drink until money has been entered" (a sa ...

, a property that a computer system must satisfy

Law and politics

Real property In English common law, real property, real estate, immovable property or, solely in the US and Canada, realty, refers to parcels of land and any associated structures which are the property of a person. For a structure (also called an Land i ...

, a piece of land defined by boundaries to which ownership is usually ascribed, including any improvements on this land *

Property rights (economics) Property rights are constructs in economics for determining how a resource or economic good is used and owned, which have developed over ancient and modern history, from Abrahamic law to Article 17 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. R ...

, a discussion of the role of property in economic theory *

National Register of Historic Places property types The United States, U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) classifies its listings by various types of properties. Listed properties generally fall into one of five categories, though there are special considerations for other types of ...

, a site designated and classified by its type on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places *

Personal property Personal property is property that is movable. In common law systems, personal property may also be called chattels or personalty. In civil law (legal system), civil law systems, personal property is often called movable property or movables—a ...

, 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 {{disambiguation