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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Characterized by affirmation, constructiveness, or influence for the better; favourable.
- Characterized by the existence or presence of qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
- Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
- chiefly|philosophy Actual, real, concrete.
- Definitively laid down; explicitly stated; clearly expressed, precise, emphatic.
- Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute.
- Fully assured, confident; certain.
- grammar Describing the primary sense of an adjective or adverb; not comparative or superlative.
- mathematics Of number, greater than zero.
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
- photography Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
- physics Having more protons than electrons.
- slang HIV positive.
- Wholly what is expressed; ''colloquially'' downright, entire, outright.
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Noun:
- A favourable point or characteristic.
- A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
- photography A '''positive''' image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.
- grammar An adjective or adverb in the '''positive''' degree.
- Something having a '''positive''' value in physics, such as an electric charge.
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