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, r ...

is the ownership of land, resources, improvements or other tangible objects, or intellectual property. Property may also refer to:

Mathematics

Property (mathematics) In mathematics, a property is any characteristic that applies to a given set. Rigorously, a property ''p'' defined for all elements of a set ''X'' is usually defined as a function ''p'': ''X'' → , that is true whenever the property holds; or eq ...

Philosophy and science

Property (philosophy) In logic and philosophy (especially metaphysics), a property is a characteristic of an object; 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 other propert ...

, in philosophy and logic, an abstraction characterizing an object *

Material properties A materials property is an intensive property of a material, i.e., a physical property that does not depend on the amount of the material. These quantitative properties may be used as a metric by which the benefits of one material versus another c ...

, properties by which the benefits of one material versus another can be assessed *

Chemical property A chemical property is any of a material's properties that becomes evident during, or after, a chemical reaction; that is, any quality that can be established only by changing a substance's chemical identity.William L. Masterton, Cecile N. Hurley, ...

, 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 Semantic properties or meaning properties are those aspects of a linguistic unit, such as a morpheme, word, or sentence, that contribute to the meaning of that unit. Basic semantic properties include being ''meaningful'' or ''meaningless'' – fo ...

Thermodynamic properties In thermodynamics, a physical property is any property that is measurable, and whose value describes a state of a physical system. Thermodynamic properties are defined as characteristic features of a system, capable of specifying the system's stat ...

, in thermodynamics and materials science, intensive and extensive physical properties of substances *

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 experience, belief, desire, intention, emotion, and memory. There is controversy concerning the exact definitio ...

, 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 pr ...

, a type of class member in object-oriented programming *

.properties .properties is a file extension for files mainly used in Java-related technologies to store the configurable parameters of an application. They can also be used for storing strings for Internationalization and localization; these are known as P ...

, 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/ref> is the ...

, 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 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 s ...

, 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) 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. Re ...

, 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 prop, formally known as (theatrical) property, is an object used on stage or screen by actors during a performance or screen production. In practical terms, a prop is considered to be anything movable or portable on a stage or a set, distinc ...

") a portable object seen on stage or film set {{disambiguation