Negative
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The term Negative refers to a property of negativity and may refer to:
[edit] Science and mathematics
- Negative and non-negative numbers
- Negative, one of the conventions, along with positive, used in distinguishing electric charge
- Negative lenses, uses to describe diverging optics. See Lens (optics)
[edit] Photography
- Negative (photography), an image with inverted luminance or a strip of film with such an image
- Original camera negative, the film in a motion picture camera which captures the original image
- Paper negative, a negative image printed on paper used to create the final print of a photograph
[edit] Linguistics
- Negation (rhetoric)
- No/Negative, the opposite of "Yes/affirmative"
- Negative, a grammatical concept
[edit] Entertainment
- Negative (pop-rock band), a Serbian pop/rock band established in 1999
- Negative (glam-rock band), a Finnish glam rock band launched in 1997
[edit] Other uses
- Negative sign, a term in astrology describing passive or feminine signs of the zodiac
- Negative space, in art, the space around or between elements of the subject
- Negative (policy debate) (NEG), the team which negates the resolution in policy debate
- Negative feedback, a feedback loop that responds in the opposite direction to a perturbation
[edit] See also
- Mu (negative)
- Negation (disambiguation)
- Positive (disambiguation)
- Double Negative, disambiguation