https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.K03392
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 (i.e. more than an arbitrary zero)] or ratio scales (length or ).
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.