An attribute of phenomena, bodies or substances that may be distinguished qualitatively.
Examples: Colour (value: green, blue), transparency, length (value: long, short;
,
),
amount-of-substance (value:
,
).
Kind-of-property includes the concept
kind-of-quantity. All kinds-of-property may be related to nominal (e.g. green, blue) and ordinal scales
(e.g. small, large), but kinds-of-quantity are generally related to difference [e.g.
(i.e.
more than an arbitrary zero)] or ratio scales (length
or
).
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 1563
(Properties and units in the clinical laboratory sciences-I. Syntax and semantic rules
(IUPAC-IFCC Recommendations 1995))
on page 1565
Cite as:
IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by
A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic,
J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8.
https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.
