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Definition of Positive

1. Adjective. Characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.. "A positive demand"

2. Noun. The primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution.

3. Adjective. Persuaded of; very sure. "Was confident he would win"

4. Noun. A film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject.

5. Adjective. Involving advantage or good. "A plus (or positive) factor"

6. Adjective. Indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen. "A positive pregnancy test"

7. Adjective. Formally laid down or imposed. "Positive laws"

8. Adjective. Impossible to deny or disprove. "An irrefutable argument"

9. Adjective. Of or relating to positivism. "Positive philosophy"

10. Adjective. Reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion. "Positive increase in graduating students"

11. Adjective. Greater than zero. "Positive numbers"

12. Adjective. Having a positive charge. "Protons are positive"

13. Adjective. Marked by excessive confidence. "The less he knows the more positive he gets"

Definition of Positive

1. a. Having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in fact; real; actual; -- opposed to negative.

2. n. That which is capable of being affirmed; reality.

3. a. Designating, or pertaining to, a motion or device in which the movement derived from a driver, or the grip or hold of a restraining piece, is communicated through an unyielding intermediate piece or pieces; as, a claw clutch is a positive clutch, while a friction clutch is not.

Definition of Positive

1. Adjective. (legal) Formally laid down. (defdate from the 14th c.) ¹

2. Adjective. Stated definitively and without qualification. (defdate from the 16th c.) ¹

3. Adjective. Fully assured in opinion. (defdate from the 17th c.) ¹

4. Adjective. (mathematics) Of number, greater than zero. (defdate from the 18th c.) ¹

5. Adjective. Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better. ¹

6. Adjective. Overconfident, dogmatic. ¹

7. Adjective. (chiefly philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative. ¹

8. Adjective. (physics) Having more protons than electrons. ¹

9. Adjective. (grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective or adverb; not comparative or superlative. ¹

10. Adjective. Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute. ¹

11. Adjective. Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence. ¹

12. Adjective. Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis. ¹

13. Adjective. (photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values. ¹

14. Adjective. Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged. ¹

15. Adjective. Wholly what is expressed; ''colloquially'' downright, entire, outright. ¹

16. Adjective. Optimistic. (defdate from the 20th c.) ¹

17. Adjective. (slang) HIV positive. ¹

18. Adjective. (context: New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion'). ¹

19. Noun. A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual. ¹

20. Noun. A favourable point or characteristic. ¹

21. Noun. Something having a '''positive''' value in physics, such as an electric charge. ¹

22. Noun. (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the '''positive''' degree. ¹

23. Noun. (context: photography) A '''positive''' image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Positive

1. certain [adj -TIVER, -TIVEST] / a quantity greater than zero [n -S] - See also: certain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Positive

positionable positional positional isomer positional isomers positional notation positional representation system positionally positioned positioner positioners

positioning positioning time positionings positionless positions positive (current term) positive(p) positive-edge-triggered positive charge positive chemotaxis

positive correlation positive crystal positive degree positive drainage positive economics positive edge positive edge-triggered positive edges positive feedback

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