A resource is a source or supply from which benefit is produced, typically of limited availability.

Resource may also refer to:

• Natural resources, anything obtained from the environment to satisfy human needs and wants
  • Water resources, sources of water that are useful or potentially useful

• Resource (biology), substances or objects required by a biological organism for normal maintenance, growth, and reproduction

• Resource (economics), commodity, service, or other asset used in production of goods and services, including
  • Human resources (HR), skills, energies, talents, abilities, and knowledge used for production
  • Resource (project management), economic resources used in planning of tasks

Computing

In computing, resource is used in two main senses.

Something used in computation, of limited availability.

• System resource (practical), physical or virtual entities of limited availability (e.g., memory, processing capacity, and network speed), includi
• Computational resource (abstract), resource used for solving a computational problem (e.g., computation time, memory space)

Data with some identity, abstracting from a file and a filename, particularly data external to an executable file.

• Web resource, anything identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier which can be found in a certain location
• Resource fork, data associated with a Mac OS file
• Resource (Windows), data embedded in EXE and DLL files
• Resource (Java), application data