Ideal (disambiguation)
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The term ideal has multiple meanings:
- In ethics
- Ideals are principles or values that one actively pursues as goals.
- In mathematics
- Ideals are special subsets of a ring considered in abstract algebra.
- Ideals appear in order theory and are a special kind of lower sets of an order.
- In physics
- The ideal gas law which governs the pressure of an ideal gas.
- An ideal transformer is a transformer having zero resistance and perfect magnetic threading.
- A thought experiment, sometimes called an ideal experiment.
- Other
- Ideal is the name of a late 1990s/early 2000s American R&B singing group.
- Ideal is the name of a toy company.