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:
“Nature’s law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors—in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“If the study of all these sciences, which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)