Neutral

Neutral or neutrality may refer to:

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

Other uses

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