neutrality

1 nonparticipation in a dispute or war

2 tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement [syn: disinterest]

3 pH value of 7

English

Noun

1. The state or quality of being neutral; the condition of being unengaged in contests between others; state of taking no part on either side; indifference.

   "Men who possess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the interest of their fellow subjects." -Addison.

2. Indifference in quality; a state neither very good nor bad. [Obs.] Donne.
3. : The quality or state of being neutral.
4. (International Law): The condition of a nation or government which refrains from taking part, directly or indirectly, in a war between other powers.
5. Those who are neutral; a combination of neutral powers or states.

Translations

• German: Neutralität
• Icelandic: hlutleysi
• Italian: neutralità (all senses)

See also

• net neutrality
• network neutrality
• internet neutrality
• NN

• Neutral country, in politics, is a country that takes no side in a conflict
• Neutral gear, in a motor vehicle gearbox, where no gear ratios are selected
• Neutral level, in semiotics, is the physical or material creation of esthesic and poietic processes
• Neutral Nation, a group of Native Americans
• Neutral territory, territory belonging to no one sovereign state.
• Neutrality of money, in economics, the notion that a change in the money supply has no real effects
• Network neutrality
• The neutral wire of ground and neutral in mains wiring
• Neutral, an alignment in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons
• In chemistry, a neutral solution is neither acidic nor basic, see pH
• In language study, the neuter gender, see grammatical gender
• Neutral particle
• Neutral colors
• "Neutral point of view", a stance or tone that is free from bias. It can be abbreviated as NPOV. See Objectivity
• Neutral Records, a record label
• The principle of neutrality is a humanitarian principle which governs humanitarian response
• In statistics, a multivariate random variable is neutral if it exhibits a particular type of statistical independence seen when considering the Dirichlet distribution
• In ecology, organisms are neutral if they obey the Unified neutral theory of biodiversity.

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