Law and politics

• Property
  Property
  Property is any physical or intangible entity that is owned by a person or jointly by a group of people or a legal entity like a corporation...
  
  , ownership of land, resources, improvements or other tangible objects, or intellectual property
• Real property
  Real property
  In English Common Law, real property, real estate, realty, or immovable property is any subset of land that has been legally defined and the improvements to it made by human efforts: any buildings, machinery, wells, dams, ponds, mines, canals, roads, various property rights, and so forth...
  
  , a piece of land defined by boundaries to which ownership is usually ascribed, including any improvements on this land
• Property rights (economics)
  Property rights (economics)
  A property right is the exclusive authority to determine how a resource is used, whether that resource is owned by government or by individuals. All economic goods have a property rights attribute...
  
  , a discussion of the role of property in economic theory
• Property type (National Register of Historic Places)
  Property type (National Register of Historic Places)
  The U.S. National Register of Historic Places 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 properties which do not fit into these five broad categories or fit into...
  
  , a site designated and classified by its type on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Philosophy

• Property (philosophy)
  Property (philosophy)
  In modern philosophy, logic, and mathematics a property is an attribute 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 properties. A property however differs from individual objects in that...
  
  , in philosophy, mathematics, and logic, an abstraction characterizing an object

Science

A property of an object

Object (philosophy)

An object in philosophy is a technical term often used in contrast to the term subject. Consciousness is a state of cognition that includes the subject, which can never be doubted as only it can be the one who doubts, and some object or objects that may or may not have real existence without...

 is some intrinsic or extrinsic

Intrinsic and extrinsic properties

An intrinsic property is an essential or inherent property of a system or of a material itself or within. It is independent of how much of the material is present and is independent of the form the material, e.g., one large piece or a collection of smaller pieces...

 quality

Quality (philosophy)

A quality is an attribute or a property. Attributes are ascribable, by a subject, whereas properties are possessible. In contemporary philosophy, the idea of qualities and especially how to distinguish certain kinds of qualities from one another remains controversial.-Background:Aristotle analyzed...

 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
  Chemical property
  A chemical property is any of a material's properties that becomes evident during a chemical reaction; that is, any quality that can be established only by changing a substance's chemical identity...
  
  
• Physical property
  Physical property
  A physical property is any property that is measurable whose value describes a physical system's state. The changes in the physical properties of a system can be used to describe its transformations ....
  
  
• Thermodynamic properties
• Mental properties

Performing arts

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

Computer science

• Window property, data associated to a window in the X Window System
• In RDF
  Resource Description Framework
  The Resource Description Framework is a family of World Wide Web Consortium specifications originally designed as a metadata data model...
  
  , a property is a property of an RDF class, possessing a value domain and range
• Property (programming)
  Property (programming)
  A property, in some object-oriented programming languages, is a special sort of class member, intermediate between a field and a method. Properties are read and written like fields, but property reads and writes are translated to get and set method calls...
  
  , a type of class member in object-oriented programming
• .properties
  .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 Property Resource Bundles.Each parameter is stored as a...
  
  , a Java Properties File with file extension .properties, a file format to store program settings as name-value pairs

Information processing

In information processing

Information processing

Information processing is the change of information in any manner detectable by an observer. As such, it is a process which describes everything which happens in the universe, from the falling of a rock to the printing of a text file from a digital computer system...

, properties are qualities of objects which are transmitted and then received by observer

State observer

In control theory, a state observer is a system that models a real system in order to provide an estimate of its internal state, given measurements of the input and output of the real system. It is typically a computer-implemented mathematical model....

s. Generally, properties allow an observer to distinguish one object from another