Neutral

For Neutral Point of View on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:NPOV.

Neutral and neutrality may mean the following:

Natural science

• Neutral element or identity element (mathematics), a special type of element of a set with respect to a binary operation on that set, such if applied to, or operated with any element of the set, causes no change to this last element
• Neutral solution (chemistry), a solution which is neither acidic nor basic
• Neutral particle (physics), a particle without electrical charge
• Neutral vector (statistics), a multivariate random variable is neutral if it exhibits a particular type of statistical independence seen when considering the Dirichlet distribution
• Neutral organisms (ecology), organisms are neutral if they obey the Unified neutral theory of biodiversity

Social science

• Political Neutrality (international relations), A juridical stance towards an armed conflict, and a policy aiming at that juridical stance in case of war
• Neutral territory, territory belonging to no one sovereign state
• Neutrality of money (economy), the notion that a change in the money supply has no real effects
• Neuter gender (linguistics), see grammatical gender
• Neutrality (philosophy), not taking side in a controversy
• Neutral level (semiotics), the physical or material creation of esthesic and poietic processes

Other

• Neutral, abbreviated 'N', in a motor vehicle transmission, when no gears are selected
• Neutral point of view "NPOV" (journalism), a stance or tone that is free from bias, see Objectivity (journalism)
• Neutral Nation, a group of Native Americans
• Network neutrality
• Neutral wire (electricity), a conductor that provides a low impedance path to the earth
• Neutral alignment (role-playing games), a categorization of the moral and ethical perspective of the player characters, non-player characters, monsters, and societies in some games
• Neutral color, gray
• Neutral Records, a record label
• Humanitarian principles#Neutrality (humanitarian principles), a principle governing humanitarian response
• Switzerland, a country known for being neutral

• Neutrals as a group. The Neutrals are a group of beings that live outside the bonds of time and space. They are here to protect the universe, specifically the Earth and the human species, from extinction at the side of the Divine side and the Cursed side.

See also

• Neutralization (disambiguation)