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
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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
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Material properties, properties by which the benefits of one material versus another can be assessed
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Chemical property, a material's properties that becomes evident during a chemical reaction
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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
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Thermodynamic properties, in thermodynamics and materials science, intensive and extensive physical properties of substances
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Mathematical property, a property is any characteristic that applies to a given
set
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Semantic property
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Mental property, a property of the mind studied by many sciences and parasciences
Computer science
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Property (programming), a type of class member in object-oriented programming
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.properties, a Java Properties File to store program settings as name-value pairs
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Window property, data associated to a window in the X Window System
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Resource Description Framework class, possessing a value domain and range
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Linear time property, a property that a computer system must satisfy
Law and politics
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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
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Property rights (economics), a discussion of the role of property in economic theory
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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
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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
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''Property'' (novel), a novel by Valerie Martin
*Theatrical property (commonly "
prop") a portable object seen on stage or film set
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