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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