Tangibility

Tangibility

In law, tangibility is the attribute of being detectable with the senses.

In criminal law, one of the elements of an offense of larceny is that the stolen property must be tangible.

In the context of intellectual property, expression in tangible form is one of the requirements for copyright protection.

See also

* Tangible property
* Tangible media


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  • Tangibility — Tan gi*bil i*ty, n. [Cf. F. tanggibilit[ e].] The quality or state of being tangible. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • tangibility — index embodiment, materiality (physical existence) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • tangibility — tangible ► ADJECTIVE 1) perceptible by touch. 2) clear and definite; real. DERIVATIVES tangibility noun tangibly adverb. ORIGIN Latin tangibilis, from tangere to touch …   English terms dictionary

  • tangibility — noun see tangible I …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • tangibility — See tangible. * * * …   Universalium

  • tangibility — noun The property of being tangible …   Wiktionary

  • tangibility — Characteristic that an assets can be used as collateral to secure debt. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …   Financial and business terms

  • tangibility — Synonyms and related words: apparentness, body, clearness, concreteness, crystal clearness, density, distinctness, durability, evidence, evidentness, firmness, manifestness, mass, materiality, obviousness, openness, openness to sight, overtness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • tangibility — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or condition of being discernible by touch: palpability, tactility, tangibleness, touchableness. See TOUCH …   English dictionary for students

  • tangibility — n. quality of being tangible …   English contemporary dictionary

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