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Neutrality
Neutrality (philosophy)

Neutrality is the absence of declared bias. In an argument, a neutral person will not choose a side.A Neutral country maintains political neutrality, a related but distinct concept....
, in philosophy, not taking side in a controversy.
Neutral point of view (NPOV) in Journalism, a stance or tone that is free from bias. See Objectivity (journalism)
Objectivity (journalism)

Objectivity is a significant principle of journalistic professionalism. Journalistic objectivity can refer to fairness, disinterestedness, factuality, and nonpartisanship, but most often encompasses all of these qualities....
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Neutral country
Neutral country

For other uses of Neutral and Neutrality, see NeutralA neutral country takes no side in a war between other parties. A neutralist policy aims at neutrality in case of an armed conflict that could involve the party in question....
, in politics, is a country that takes no side in a conflict
Neutral gear
Gear

A gear is a component within a Transmission device that transmits rotational force to another gear or device. A gear is different from a pulley in that a gear is a round wheel that has linkages that mesh with other gear teeth, allowing force to be fully transferred without slippage....
, in a motor
Motor

Motor may refer to:*An engine:**Servo motor, it uses in robots it also haveing a inbuilt rotation sensor***Electric motor, a machine that converts electricity into a mechanical motion...
vehicle
Vehicle

Vehicles, derived from the Latin word, vehiculum, are non-living means of transport. Most often they are manufactured , although some other means of transport which are not made by humans also may be called vehicles; examples include icebergs and floating tree trunks....
gearbox, where no gear ratios are selected
Neutral level
Neutral level

In a semiotics the neutral level of a sign is the "trace" left behind, the physical or material creation or remains of esthesic and poietic processes, levels, and analyses of symbolic forms....
, in semiotics, is the physical or material creation of esthesic and poietic processes
Neutral element, in mathematics
Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
, an identity element
Identity element

In mathematics, an identity element is a special type of element of a Set with respect to a binary operation on that set. It leaves other elements unchanged when combined with them....
(or neutral element) is a special type of element of a set with respect to a binary operation
Binary operation

In mathematics, a binary operation is a calculation involving two operands, in other words, an operation whose arity is two. Binary operations can be accomplished using either a binary function or binary operator....
on that set, such if applied to or operated with any element of the set, causes no change to this last element
Neutral Nation
Neutral Nation

The Neutrals, also known as the Attawandaron, were an Iroquoian nation of Aboriginal peoples in Canada who lived near the shores of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie....
, a group of Native Americans
Neutral territory
Neutral territory

A Neutral territory is a territory that is not an integral part of any state , and yet is not terra nullius, but is the object of an agreement under international law between at least two parties that neither shall establish, at least for the duration of the agreement's validity, effective control over it....
, territory belonging to no one sovereign state.
Neutrality of money
Neutrality of money

In economics, neutrality of money is the idea that a change in the stock of money affects only real versus nominal value variables in the economy such as prices, wages and exchange rates, having no effect on real versus nominal value variables like GDP, employment, and consumption ....
, in economics, the notion that a change in the money supply has no real
Real versus nominal value

In economics, nominal value refers to any price or value expressed in money of the day, as opposed to real value, which adjusts for the effect of inflation....
effects
Network neutrality
Network neutrality

Network neutrality is a principle proposed for residential broadband networks and potentially for all networks. A neutral broadband network is one that is free of restrictions on content, sites, or platforms, on the kinds of equipment that may be attached, and on the modes of communication allowed, as well as one where communication is...
The neutral wire of ground and neutral
Ground and neutral

Since the neutral point of an electrical power system is often connected to earth ground , ground and neutral are closely related. Under certain conditions, a Electrical conduction used to connect to a system neutral is also used for grounding of equipment and structures....
in mains
Mains electricity

Mains is the general-purpose alternating current electric power supply. The term is not often used in the United States and Canada. In the US, mains power is referred to by a variety of formal and informal names, including household power, household electricity, domestic power, wall power, line power, AC p...
wiring
Neutral
Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, alignment is a categorization of the ethics and morality perspective of people, creatures and societies....
, an alignment
Alignment (role-playing games)

In some role-playing games, alignment is a categorisation of the morality and ethics perspective of the player characters, non-player characters, monsters, and society in the game....
in the role-playing game
Role-playing game

A role-playing game is a game in which the participants assume the roles of fictional characters. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail according to a role-playing game system of rules and guidelines....
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by TSR, Inc....
In chemistry, a neutral solution is neither acidic nor basic, see pH
PH

pH is a measure of the Acid or Base of a solution. It is defined as the cologarithm of the Activity of dissolved hydrogen ions . Hydrogen ion activity coefficients cannot be measured experimentally, so they are based on theoretical calculations....
In language study, the neuter gender, see grammatical gender
Grammatical gender

In linguistics, grammatical genders, sometimes also called noun classes, are classes of nouns reflected in the behavior of associated words; every noun must belong to one of the classes and there should be very few which belong to several classes at once....
Neutral particle
Neutral particle

In physics, a neutral particle is a Subatomic particle with no electric charge....
Neutral colors
Neutral Records
Neutral Records

Neutral Records is an independent record label. Glenn Branca ran the label during the No Wave and post-punk scene in the Lower East Side, New York, in the late 1970s and early 1980s....
, a record label
The principle of neutrality is a humanitarian principle
Humanitarian principles

There are a number of meanings for the term humanitarian. Here humanitarian pertains to the practice of saving lives and alleviating suffering. It is usually related to emergency response whether in the case of a natural disaster or a man-made disaster such as war or other armed conflict....
which governs humanitarian response
In statistics
Statistics

Statistics is a Mathematics pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. It also provides tools for prediction and forecasting based on data....
, a multivariate random variable
Multivariate random variable

A multivariate random variable or random vector is a vector space X = whose components are scalar -valued random variables on the same probability space ....
is neutral
Neutral vector

In statistics, and specifically in the study of the Dirichlet distribution, a neutral vector of random variables is one that exhibits a particular type of statistical independence amongst its elements.....
if it exhibits a particular type of statistical independence
Statistical independence

In probability theory, to say that two event s are independent intuitively means that the occurrence of one event makes it neither more nor less probable that the other occurs....
seen when considering the Dirichlet distribution
Dirichlet distribution

In probability and statistics, the Dirichlet distribution , often denoted Dir, is a family of Continuous probability distribution multivariate random variable probability distributions parametrized by the vector α of positive real number....
In ecology
Ecology

Ecology is the science study of the distribution and Abundance of life and the interactions between organisms and their nature environment ....
, organisms are neutral if they obey the Unified neutral theory of biodiversity
Unified neutral theory of biodiversity

The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography is a theory and the title of a monograph by ecology Stephen Hubbell. The theory aims to explain the diversity and relative abundance of species in ecological communities, although like other neutral theory of ecology, Hubbell's theory assumes that the differences between members of...
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