Neutral

For the "neutral point of view" (NPOV) in Wikipedia, one of Wikipedia's three core content policies, see Wikipedia:NPOV.

Neutral and neutrality may mean the following:

Politics and social science

• 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

• 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. 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.

Other and related senses

• Neutral (usually abbreviated "N"), the state where no gears are selected for a motor vehicle's transmission.
• Neutral point of view ("NPOV"), a stance or tone that is free from bias (see Objectivity (journalism)).
• Neutral Nation, a group of Native Americans.
• Network neutrality, a principle that advocates the government regulation of Internet service providers.
• 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 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 regards to gender.
• Liberal neutrality
• Search neutrality
• Medical neutrality

See also

• Neutralization (disambiguation)