Semipositive
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Partially positive in attitude etc. not-comparable
"Jason seemed to have two completely different ways of belonging and gaining significance — a negative method with his mother and a semipositive method with his father."
- 2 Having a dual that is nonnegative. not-comparable
"The purpose of this short note is to give a remark on the decomposition theorem for direct images of canonical sheaves tensorized with Nakano semipositive vector bundles."
- 3 Having all elements nonnegative where at least one is positive. not-comparable
- 4 A type of compression mold for plastics that allows for excess powder and flash, as in an open flash mold, but which allows for lower melt viscosities as in a fully positive mold. not-comparable
"For such products, a semipositive mold is designed (Fig. 1.1.14), with the flash at a right angle to the direction of pressure."
Example
More examples"Jason seemed to have two completely different ways of belonging and gaining significance — a negative method with his mother and a semipositive method with his father."
Etymology
From semi- + positive.
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