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Characteristic :: Characteristic (n.) The integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm.

Positive :: Positive (n.) A picture in which the lights and shades correspond in position with those of the original, instead of being reversed, as in a negative..

Whit :: Whit (n.) The smallest part or particle imaginable; a bit; a jot; an iota; -- generally used in an adverbial phrase in a negative sentence.

Bocardo :: Bocardo (n.) A form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative..

Autotype :: Autotype (n.) A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.

For- :: For- () A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe..

Negatived :: Negatived (imp. & p. p.) of Negativ.

Veto :: Veto (n.) An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

Dis- :: Dis- () A prefix from the Latin, whence F. des, or sometimes de-, dis-. The Latin dis-appears as di-before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v, becomes dif-before f, and either dis-or di- before j. It is from the same root as bis twice, and duo, E. two. See Two, and cf. Bi-, Di-, Dia-. Dis-denotes separation, a parting from, as in distribute, disconnect; hence it often has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. Also intensive, as in dissever..

Sufferance :: Sufferance (n.) Negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; permission; allowance; leave.

Electro-positive :: Electro-positive (a.) Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; -- distinguished from negative, nonmetallic, or acid..

Residue :: Residue (n.) Any positive or negative number that differs from a given number by a multiple of a given modulus; thus, if 7 is the modulus, and 9 the given number, the numbers -5, 2, 16, 23, etc., are residues..

Recusative :: Recusative (a.) Refusing; denying; negative.

Print :: Print (v. t.) To take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a negative, a transparent drawing, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface..

Tolerate :: Tolerate (v. t.) To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices..

Nor :: Nor (conj.) A negative connective or particle, introducing the second member or clause of a negative proposition, following neither, or not, in the first member or clause (as or in affirmative propositions follows either). Nor is also used sometimes in the first member for neither, and sometimes the neither is omitted and implied by the use of nor..

Intensify :: Intensify (v. t.) To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity..

Retouch :: Retouch (v. t.) To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork..

Albertype :: Albertype (n.) A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.

Hydrogode :: Hydrogode (n.) The negative pole or cathode.

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