title: Property (disambiguation)
text: # Property (disambiguation)
  
  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
  