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Positive
Positive Pos"i*tive, a.
1. (Mach. & Mech.)
(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.
(b) Designating, or pertaining to, a device giving a
to-and-fro motion; as, a positive dobby.
Positive
Positive Pos"i*tive, n.
1. That which is capable of being affirmed; reality. --South.
2. That which settles by absolute appointment.
3. (Gram.) The positive degree or form.
4. (Photog.) A picture in which the lights and shades
correspond in position with those of the original, instead
of being reversed, as in a negative. --R. Hunt.
5. (Elec.) The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic
cell.
Meaning of Positive from wikipedia
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- function, that are widely used in medicine: Sensitivity (also called the true positive rate, the epidemiological/clinical sensitivity, the recall, or probability...
- Positive feedback (or exacerbating feedback) is a process that occurs in a feedback loop which exacerbates the effects of a small disturbance. That is...
- Positive psychology is the study of the "good life", or the positive aspects of the human experience that make life worth living. As an art, it focuses...
- B Positive is an upcoming American television sitcom that is being co-created, co-written, and co-executive produced by Chuck Lorre and Marco Pennette...
- In bacteriology, Gram-positive bacteria are bacteria that give a positive result in the Gram stain test, which is traditionally used to quickly cl****ify...
- positive is an error in data reporting in which a test result improperly indicates presence of a condition, such as a disease (the result is positive)...
- In mathematics, positive semidefinite may refer to: Positive-semidefinite function Positive semidefinite matrix Semidefinite bilinear form...
