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In law, tangible property is property that can be touched, and includes both real property and personal property (or moveable property), and stands in distinction to intangible property. [ citation needed ]
Tangible goods stacked in a warehouse. In economics, goods are items that satisfy human wants [1] and provide utility, for example, to a consumer making a purchase of a satisfying product. [2] Economics focuses on the study of economic goods, or goods that are scarce; in other words, producing the good requires expending effort or resources.
In geography and particularly in geographic information science, a geographic feature or simply feature (also called an object or entity) is a representation of phenomenon that exists at a location in the space and scale of relevance to geography; that is, at or near the surface of Earth.
Cultural property includes the physical, or "tangible" cultural heritage, such as artworks. These are generally split into two groups of movable and immovable heritage. Immovable heritage includes buildings (which themselves may include installed art such as organs, stained glass windows, and frescos), large industrial installations, residential projects, or other historic places and monum
In studying a human culture, an anthropologist studies the material culture of the people in question as well as the people themselves and their interactions with others. To understand the culture in which an object is featured, an anthropologist looks at the object itself, its context, and the way that it was manufactured and used.
In the context of intellectual property, expression in tangible form is one of the requirements for copyright protection. In the context of international tax law , article 5(1) of the OECD Model Tax Treaty requires to date a permanent establishment to consist of a tangible place of business.
An object may be composed of components. A component is an object completely within the boundary of a containing object. A living thing may be an object, and is distinguished from non-living things by the designation of the latter as inanimate objects. Inanimate objects generally lack the capacity or desire to undertake actions, although humans ...
Coastal geography is the study of the dynamic interface between the ocean and the land, incorporating both the physical geography (i.e. coastal geomorphology, geology, and oceanography) and the human geography of the coast.