Definition of positive

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Positive (a.) Having the power of direct action or influence; as, a positive voice in legislation..

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Zincode :: Zincode (n.) The positive electrode of an electrolytic cell; anode.
Bibasic :: Bibasic (a.) Having to hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by positive or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of acids. See Dibasic.
Positive :: Positive (n.) The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
Averment :: Averment (v. t.) The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion..
Agnosticism :: Agnosticism (n.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism..
Categorically :: Categorically (adv.) Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically..
Flatly :: Flatly (adv.) In a flat manner; evenly; horizontally; without spirit; dully; frigidly; peremptorily; positively, plainly..
Dogmatical :: Dogmatical (a.) Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing..
Dispositive :: Dispositive (a.) Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive.
Pragmatical :: Pragmatical (a.) Busy; specifically, busy in an objectionable way; officious; fussy and positive; meddlesome..
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..
Privative :: Privative (a.) Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative.
Electro-positive :: Electro-positive (a.) Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; -- the converse or correlative of electro-negative..
Assert :: Assert (v. t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate..
Comparatively :: Comparatively (adv.) According to estimate made by comparison; relatively; not positively or absolutely.
Diaphanotype :: Diaphanotype (n.) A colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one.
Additive :: Additive (a.) Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
Positive :: Positive (a.) Having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in fact; real; actual; -- opposed to negative..
Melanotype :: Melanotype (n.) A positive picture produced with sensitized collodion on a smooth surface of black varnish, coating a thin plate of iron; also, the process of making such a picture..
Absolutely :: Absolutely (adv.) In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively..
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