Neutral
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Neutral and neutrality may mean the following, as the root is from the Latin neuter, translating to "neither one, nor the other".
Politics and social science
- Country neutrality (international relations), where a polity such as a state favors or supports none of the parties involved in a disagreement, conflict, or war
- Neutral territory, territory belonging to no particular sovereign state
- Neutrality of money, the notion that a change in the supply of money in an economy has no tangible effects
- Neuter gender, a form of noun classification in linguistics
- Neutrality (philosophy), the absence of declared or intentional bias
- Neutral level, the physical or material traces of esthesic and poietic processes identified in semiotics
Mathematics and natural science
- Neutralization (chemistry), a chemical reaction in which an acid and a base react quantitatively with each other
- Neutral element, a special type of element in mathematics with respect to a binary operation on a set, such that if that binary operation is applied to any element in that set, that element is left unchanged. It is also known as the "identity element".
- Neutral solution, a chemical solution which is neither acidic nor basic
- Neutral particle, a particle without electrical charge
- Neutral vector, a multivariate random variable that exhibits a particular type of statistical independence (Dirichlet distribution)
- Neutral organisms, in ecology, obey the unified neutral theory of biodiversity
Geographic locations
- Neutral, Kansas, a community in the United States
Other and related senses
- Neutral (usually abbreviated "N"), the state where no gears are selected for a motor vehicle's transmission
- Neutrality (psychoanalysis)
- Neutral point of view ("NPOV"), a stance or tone that is free from bias (see journalistic objectivity)
- Neutral Nation, a group of Native Americans
- Network neutrality, a principle which advocates that all data on the Internet be treated equally
- Neutral wire, a conductor that provides a low impedance path to earth
- Neutral alignment, a categorization of the moral and ethical perspective of some characters, creatures and societies in some role-playing games
- Neutral (Dungeons & Dragons), an alignment in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game
- Neutral color, a description sometimes used to characterise the color gray
- Neutral Records, a record label
- Humanitarian neutrality, a principle governing humanitarian responses
- Gender neutrality, a principle which advocates practices and behaviors which are neutral in regard to gender
- Liberal neutrality
- Search neutrality
- Medical neutrality
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