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Definition of Positives
1. positive [n] - See also: positive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Positives
Literary usage of Positives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"These mounted positives are usually viewed as lantern-slides, ... The next step
is the production from the negatives of the three positives. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"Mr. Lyte's Treatment of Positives. — It would be quite superfluous, after the
very excellent communication of Mx. Poi.i.ocx, were I to give a detailed ..."
3. Elements of Physical Manipulation by Edward Charles Pickering (1873)
"Porcelain photographs were formerly taken in this way, but both are now often
printed like paper positives. Ambrotypes are negatives exposed for a short ..."
4. Homelessness: Programs and the People They Serve: Findings of the National by Martha R. Burt (1999)
"Risk of False Positives The reader should note that when one conducts a very
large number of statistical significance tests, some of them are going to ..."
5. The Story of the Organ by Charles Francis Abdy Williams (1903)
"THOUGH the keyboards of mediaeval church organs were clumsy and unmanageable,
and only adapted for playing The key- t^e case with positives and portatives. ..."
6. Science Abstracts by Institution of Electrical Engineers (1900)
"Each car carries 48 cells of the Pullman and American types, rated at 160 ampere
hours, and each weighing 56 Ibs. The plates (4 positives and 5 negatives) ..."
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