- In personal relationships, commitment can be characterised as interaction dominated by obligations. These obligations may be mutual, or self-imposed, or explicitly stated, or may not. Distinction is often made between commitment as a member of an organisation (such as a sporting team, a religion, or as an employee); and what is termed personal commitment, which is a relationship of obligation to an individual.
- In mental hygiene and psychiatry, the practice of using legal means or forms to commit a person to a mental hospital, insane asylum or psychiatric ward against the will or over the protests of that person is involuntary commitment
- In philosophy, belief in an ontology is an ontological commitment
- In the telephone industry, the beginning of AT&T's monopoly was the Kingsbury Commitment
- In cryptography: Commitment scheme
- In data management, to commit is to make changes permanent. For example,
COMMIT is a statement in SQL. The opposite is to rollback.
- Climate commitment: see climate commitment studies.
- Committed was a 1988 movie.
- Committed was a 2000 movie starring Heather Graham and Luke Wilson.
- Committed was an animated television series that aired on CTV in 2001.
- Committed was a sitcom that aired on NBC in 2005.
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