Property (disambiguation)

Property may refer to:

Law and politics

• Property, ownership of land, resources, improvements or other tangible objects, or intellectual property
• 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
• Property type (National Register of Historic Places), a site designated and classified by its type on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Philosophy

• Property (philosophy), in philosophy, mathematics, and logic, an abstraction characterizing an object

Science

A property of an object is some intrinsic or extrinsic quality of that object, where the nature of the "object" in question will depend on the field, as, for example, indicated below.

• Material properties
• Chemical property
• Physical property
• Thermodynamic properties
• Mental properties

Performing arts

• Theatrical properties, (usually known as a "prop") any object used or touched by a performer

Literature

• Property (novel) is the name of a novel by Valerie Martin

Computer science

• Window property, data associated to a window in the X Window System
• In RDF, a property is a property of an RDF class, possessing a value domain and range
• Property (programming), a type of class member in object-oriented programming
• .properties, a Java Properties File with file extension .properties, a file format to store program settings as name-value pairs

Information processing

In information processing, properties are qualities of objects which are transmitted and then received by observers. Generally, properties allow an observer to distinguish one object from another