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Appositive
Appositive Ap*pos"i*tive, a. Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. -- n. A noun in apposition. -- Ap*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. Appositive to the words going immediately before. --Knatchbull.
Appositively
Appositive Ap*pos"i*tive, a. Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. -- n. A noun in apposition. -- Ap*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. Appositive to the words going immediately before. --Knatchbull.
Compositive
Compositive Com*pos"i*tive, a. [L. compositivus.] Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded. [R.]
Dispositive
Dispositive Dis*pos"i*tive, a. [Cf. F. dispositif.] 1. Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive. [Obs.] His dispositive wisdom and power. --Bates. 2. Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency. [Obs.] ``Dispositive holiness.' --Jer. Taylor.
Dispositively
Dispositively Dis*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at once. --Boyle.
Electro-positive
Electro-positive E*lec`tro-pos"i*tive, a. 1. (Physics) 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. Note: An element that is electro-positive in one compound may be electro-negative in another, and vice versa. 2. (Chem.) Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; -- distinguished from negative, nonmetallic, or acid.
Electro-positive
Electro-positive E*lec`tro-pos"i*tive, n. (Chem. & Physics) A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis.
Expositive
Expositive Ex*pos"i*tive, a. Serving to explain; expository. --Bp. Pearson.
Oppositive
Oppositive Op*pos`i*tive, a. [Cf. F. oppositif. See Opposite.] Capable of being put in opposition. --Bp. Hall.
Optically positive
Optically active, Optically inactive (Chem. Physics), terms used of certain metameric substances which, while identical with each other in other respects, differ in this, viz., that they do or do not produce right-handed or left-handed circular polarization of light. Optically positive, Optically negative. See under Refraction.
Positive
Positive Pos"i*tive, a. 1. (Mach. & Mech.) (a) Designating, or pertaining to, a motion or device in which the movement derived from a driver, or the grip or hold of a restraining piece, is communicated through an unyielding intermediate piece or pieces; as, a claw clutch is a positive clutch, while a friction clutch is not. (b) Designating, or pertaining to, a device giving a to-and-fro motion; as, a positive dobby.
Positive
Positive Pos"i*tive, n. 1. That which is capable of being affirmed; reality. --South. 2. That which settles by absolute appointment. 3. (Gram.) The positive degree or form. 4. (Photog.) A picture in which the lights and shades correspond in position with those of the original, instead of being reversed, as in a negative. --R. Hunt. 5. (Elec.) The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
positive chemotaxis
Chemotaxis Chem`o*tax"is, n. Formerly also Chemiotaxis Chem`i*o*tax"is [Chemical + Gr. ? arrangement, fr. ? to arrange.] (Biol.) The sensitiveness exhibited by small free-swimming organisms, as bacteria, zo["o]spores of alg[ae], etc., to chemical substances held in solution. They may be attracted (positive chemotaxis) or repelled (negative chemotaxis). -- Chem`o*tac"tic, a. -- Chem`o*tac"tic*al*ly, adv.
positive hydrotropism
Hydrotropism Hy*drot"ro*pism, n. (Bot.) In a broader sense, any curvature or turning induced in certain growing plant organs under the influence of moisture. Note: When the movement is toward the moisture, as is the case in most roots, the phenomenon is called positive hydrotropism; when away from the moisture, as in the case of hyphae of certain fungi, negative hydrotropism.
positive phototaxis
Phototaxis Pho`to*tax"is, Phototaxy Pho"to*tax`y, n. [NL. phototaxis; photo- + Gr. ? an arranging.] (Biol.) The influence of light on the movements of low organisms, as various infusorians, the zo["o]spores of certain alg[ae], etc.; also, the tendency to follow definite directions of motion or assume definite positions under such influence. If the migration is toward the source of light, it is termed positive phototaxis; if away from the light, negative phototaxis. -- Pho`to*tac"tic, a. -- Pho`to*tac"tic*al*ly, adv.
positive thigmotaxis
Thigmotaxis Thig`mo*tax"is, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? touch + ? an arranging.] (Physiol.) The property possessed by living protoplasm of contracting, and thus moving, when touched by a solid or fluid substance. Note: When the movement is away from the touching body, it is negative thigmotaxis; when towards it, positive thigmotaxis.
Positively
Positively Pos"i*tive*ly, adv. In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly; with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to negatively. Good and evil which is removed may be esteemed good or evil comparatively, and positively simply. --Bacon. Give me some breath, some little pause, my lord, Before I positively speak herein. --Shak. I would ask . . . whether . . . the divine law does not positively require humility and meekness. --Sprat. Positively charged or electrified (Elec.), having a charge of positive electricity; -- opposed to negatively electrified.
Positively charged
Positively Pos"i*tive*ly, adv. In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly; with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to negatively. Good and evil which is removed may be esteemed good or evil comparatively, and positively simply. --Bacon. Give me some breath, some little pause, my lord, Before I positively speak herein. --Shak. I would ask . . . whether . . . the divine law does not positively require humility and meekness. --Sprat. Positively charged or electrified (Elec.), having a charge of positive electricity; -- opposed to negatively electrified.
Positiveness
Positiveness Pos"i*tive*ness, n. The quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See Positive, a. Positiveness, pedantry, and ill manners. --Swift. The positiveness of sins of commission lies both in the habitude of the will and in the executed act too; the positiveness of sins of omission is in the habitude of the will only. --Norris.
Positivism
Positivism Pos"i*tiv*ism, n. A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte, which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useless and unprofitable.
Positivist
Positivist Pos"i*tiv*ist, n. A believer in positivism. -- a. Relating to positivism.
Positivity
Positivity Pos`i*tiv"i*ty, n. Positiveness. --J. Morley.
Postpositive
Postpositive Post*pos"i*tive, a. [See Postpone.] Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter. -- Post*pos"i*tive*ly, adv.
Postpositively
Postpositive Post*pos"i*tive, a. [See Postpone.] Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter. -- Post*pos"i*tive*ly, adv.
Reversed positive
Reversed Re*versed", a. 1. Turned side for side, or end for end; changed to the contrary; specifically (Bot. & Zo["o]l.), sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell. 2. (Law) Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative (Photog.), a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. --Abney.
Suppositive
Suppositive Sup*pos"i*tive, a. [Cf. F. suppositif.] Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed. -- Sup*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. --Hammond.
Suppositive
Suppositive Sup*pos"i*tive, n. A word denoting or implying supposition, as the words if, granting, provided, etc. --Harris.
Suppositively
Suppositive Sup*pos"i*tive, a. [Cf. F. suppositif.] Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed. -- Sup*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. --Hammond.
Transpositive
Transpositive Trans*pos"i*tive, a. Made by transposing; consisting in transposition; transposable.

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