Mutual may refer to:
- Mutual organization, where as customers derive a right to profits and votes
- Mutual information, the intersection of multiple information sets
- Mutual insurance, where policyholders have certain "ownership" rights in the organization
- Mutual fund, a professionally managed form of collective investments
- Mutual Film, early American motion picture conglomerate, the producers of some of Charlie Chaplin's greatest comedies
- Mutual Broadcasting System, a defunct U.S. radio network
- Mutual Improvement Association, a youth program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Mutual authentication, used in cryptography
- Place names
- Mutual, Maryland, a community in the United States
- Mutual, Ohio, a village in the United States
- Mutual railway station in Cape Town, South Africa
Famous quotes containing the word mutual:
“I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life—the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.”
—Salvador Minuchin (20th century)
“Every nation ... have their refinements and grossiertes.... There is a balance ... of good and bad every where; and nothing but the knowing it is so can emancipate one half of the world from the prepossessions which it holds against the other—that [was] the advantage of travel ... it taught us mutual toleration; and mutual toleration ... taught us mutual love.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that three-quarters free and communicates self-confidence and mutual cheerful agreeableness to those who know they are subject to its law.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)