A Resource is something that can be used for a purpose. For example, tools and materials are resources. There are many kinds of resource:

• Resource (Types and Developments), any natural or human wealth that can be used for satisfying human needs
• Resource (economics), properties and opportunities which are used in the process of producing goods, including:
  • Natural resource, something that is valuable in its relatively natural form
  • Human resources (HR) or human capital, valuable human work power
  • Resource (project management), economic resources used in planning of tasks
• Resource (computer science), files which contain data (like icons or images) to be used by a computer program, including
  • Resource (Web)
    • Uniform Resource Identifier
    • Uniform Resource Locator
  • Resource (Macintosh), data associated with a Mac OS file
  • Resource (Windows), data embedded in EXE and DLL files
  • Resource (Java), application data