>No. A Property, by definition, has get and/or set accessors. A public variable OTOH is, strictly speaking, referred to as a Field....
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/43s90322(v=vs.80).aspx

Is this a terminology specific to .NET or global?

Inside a class, we have methods, those are DIM declared variables, thus known as variables. I always referred to those class PUBLIC declarations to be known as properties. I know that therminology property in VB or VB.NET by the use of Get/Set was being known as property. But, generally, if we go outside this .NET environment, will a PUBLIC declaration on top of a class be known as property?