Neutral or neutrality may refer to:

Mathematics and natural science

Biology

  • Neutral organisms, in ecology, those that 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

  • 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

Political principles

  • Neutral point of view, 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
  • Neutrality (social choice), a principle that a voting rule should not discriminate apriori between candidates.

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 Confederacy, historic Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands

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
  • Neutral (Rapper), an American Rapper and hip hop artist

Other uses

  • Neutral, Kansas, an unincorporated community in the United States
  • Neutral color, a description sometimes used to characterise the color gray

See also

  • Impartiality
  • Neuter (disambiguation)
  • Nutter (disambiguation)