Free may refer to:
Concept
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Freedom, having the ability to do something, without having to obey anyone/anything
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Freethought
Freethought (sometimes spelled free thought) is an epistemological viewpoint which holds that beliefs should not be formed on the basis of authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma, and that beliefs should instead be reached by other meth ...
, a position that beliefs should be formed only on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism
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Emancipate
Emancipation generally means to free a person from a previous restraint or legal disability. More broadly, it is also used for efforts to procure economic and social rights, political rights or equality, often for a specifically disenfranchis ...
, to procure political rights, as for a disenfranchised group
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Free will
Free will is the capacity of agents to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded.
Free will is closely linked to the concepts of moral responsibility, praise, culpability, sin, and other judgements which apply only to a ...
, control exercised by rational agents over their actions and decisions
* Free of charge, also known as gratis. See
Gratis vs libre
The English adjective ''free'' is commonly used in one of two meanings: "at no monetary cost" (''gratis'') and "with little or no restriction" (''libre''). This ambiguity of ''free'' can cause issues where the distinction is important, as it ...
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Computing
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Free (programming)
C dynamic memory allocation refers to performing manual memory management for dynamic memory allocation in the C programming language via a group of functions in the C standard library, namely , , , and .
The C++ programming language includes ...
, a function that releases dynamically allocated memory for reuse
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Free format
An open file format is a file format for storing Data (computing), digital data, defined by an openly published specification usually maintained by a standards organization, and which can be used and implemented by anyone. Open file format is lice ...
, a file format which can be used without restrictions
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Free software
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, ...
, software usable and distributable with few restrictions and no payment
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