Neutral

Neutral or neutrality may refer to:

Mathematics and natural science

Biology

• Neutral organisms, in ecology, obey the unified neutral theory of biodiversity

Chemistry and physics

• Neutralization (chemistry), a chemical reaction in which an acid and a base react quantitatively with each other
• Neutral solution, a chemical solution which is neither acidic nor basic
• Neutral particle, a particle without electrical charge

Mathematics

• Neutral element or identity element, in mathematics, a special element with respect to a binary operation, such that if the operation is applied to any element in a set, that element is unchanged
• Neutral vector, a multivariate random variable that exhibits a particular type of statistical independence (Dirichlet distribution)

Philosophy

For political principles, see § Political principles.

• Neutrality (philosophy), the absence of declared or intentional bias
• Neutrality (psychoanalysis)
• Neutral level, the physical or material traces of esthesic and poietic processes identified in semiotics

Politics

• Neutral country, a polity such as a state that favors or supports none of the parties involved in a disagreement, conflict, or war
• Neutral territory, territory belonging to no particular sovereign state

Political principles

• Neutral point of view ("NPOV"), a stance or tone that is free from bias (see journalistic objectivity)
• Gender neutrality, a principle which advocates gender equality practices and behaviors which are neutral in regard to gender
• Humanitarian neutrality, a principle governing humanitarian responses
• Medical neutrality, a principle of noninterference with medical services in times of armed conflict and civil unrest
• Network neutrality, a principle which advocates that all data on the Internet be treated equally
• Search neutrality, a principle that search engines should have no editorial policies other than that their results be comprehensive, impartial and based solely on relevance

Other uses in politics

• Neutrality of money, the notion that a change in the supply of money in an economy has no tangible effects
• Neutral Nation, a group of Native Americans

Technology

• Neutral (usually abbreviated "N"), the state where no gears are selected for a motor vehicle's transmission
• Neutral wire, a conductor that provides a low impedance path to earth

Arts and media

• Neutrality (film), a 1949 Spanish drama
• 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 Records, a record label

Other uses

• Neutral, Kansas, a community in the United States
• Neutral color, a description sometimes used to characterise the color gray
• Neuter gender, a form of noun classification in linguistics