Property to which individuals or corporations have certain exclusive property rights, but do not necessarily possess.

(philosophy) Of or pertaining to the theory of properties.

(probability theory) The memoryless property of Markov models, according to which the future states depend only on the current state and not those that preceded it.

(topology) A property of a topological space that is invariant under homeomorphisms.

(law) Intellectual property as used in commerce and industry, particularly patents and trademarks, as distinguished in some European legal systems from intellectual property as used in the arts.

(computer science) The property of being globally solvable optimally by making optimal decisions locally.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see generic, property.

(computing, object-oriented programming) A property of an object that transmits notification of any changes to an adapter or event handler.

plural of property register

an official list maintained by the land registry of land, buildings and their particulars.