Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or policy of being neutral, especially nonparticipation in war.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being neutral or of being unengaged in a dispute or contest between others; the taking of no part on either side; in international law, the attitude and condition of a nation or state which does not take part directly or indirectly in a war between other states, but maintains relations of amity with all the contending parties.
- noun Indifference in quality; a state neither very good nor very evil.
- noun The state of being of the neuter gender.
- noun In chem., the state of being neither acid nor basic; absence of the power to saturate or combine with either an acid or a base
- noun Synonyms Neutrality, Indifference. A nation may be very far from viewing or regarding with indifference a war between two of its neighbors, and yet it may preserve a strict neutrality—that is, it may refrain strictly from helping the one that it wishes to see victorious or hindering the one that it wishes to see defeated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun obsolete Indifference in quality; a state neither very good nor bad.
- noun (Chem.) The quality or state of being neutral. See
Neutral , a., 4. - noun (International Law) The condition of a nation or government which refrains from taking part, directly or indirectly, in a war between other powers.
- noun Those who are neutral; a combination of neutral powers or states.
- noun the condition of a neutral power, in time of war, which holds itself ready to resist by force any aggression of either belligerent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun 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.
- noun obsolete Indifference in quality; a state neither very good nor bad. -- John Donne
- noun chemistry : The quality or state of being neutral.
- noun international law The condition of a nation or government which refrains from taking part, directly or indirectly, in a war between other powers.
- noun Those who are neutral; a combination of neutral powers or states.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement
- noun pH value of 7
- noun nonparticipation in a dispute or war
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Examples
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They consider the cargo as unprotected by the laws of Congress, because (as they affirm) this vessel cannot be thought to be strictly _neutral_, that Congress meant to pay a regard to _right_ of neutrality, that the _right of neutrality_ only extends _protection_ to the effects and goods of an enemy in neutral bottoms, not engaged in the violation of this right.
The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI Jared Sparks 1827
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His main view was to keep our people in peace; he apologized for the use of the term neutrality in his answers, and justified it, by having submitted the first of them (that to the merchants, wherein it was used) to our consideration, and we had not objected to the term.
The Anas 1818
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His main view was to keep our people in peace; he apologized for the use of the term neutrality in his answers, and justified it, by having submitted the first of them (that to the merchants, wherein it was used) to our consideration, and we had not objected to the term.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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This neutrality is a favorite target of bloggers who say that mainstream journalism objectivity disguises hidden biases of the form, if not the writer.
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The provision of statistics which can be used without fear of inaccuracy or without controversy as to their neutrality is a need in Canada which can well be supplied by our Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
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First you cite AGAIN an article that admits up front that its neutrality is disputed.
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Viewpoint neutrality is not the be all and end all of all standards of conduct in speech, although it might be something to lean towards to some degree.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A View from an Incoming Harvard 1L 2010
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As I explain in my article, the basic goal of technology neutrality is to develop Fourth Amendment principles that roughly replicate the function of the Fourth Amendment offline in the online environment.
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No, I'm explaining to you that neutrality is the starting point in science.
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You mean the article where at the very TOP before anything else it says the neutrality is in question?
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Not least, he fought to restore net neutrality, the principle which prevented internet providers from favoring some content over others.
Beto O’Rourke’s secret membership in America’s oldest hacking group JOSEPH MENN in SAN FRANCISCO 2019
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