Negative

Negative may refer to:

Science and mathematics

• Negative number
• Negative mass
• Negative energy
• Negative charge, one of the two types of electric charge
• Negative (electrical polarity), in electric circuits
• Negative result (disambiguation)
• Negative lenses, uses to describe diverging optics

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

Linguistics

• A negative answer, commonly expressed with the word no
• A type of grammatical construction; see affirmative and negative
• A double negative is a construction occurring when two forms of grammatical negation are used in the same sentence.

Music

• Negative (Finnish band), a Finnish band established in 1997
• Negative (Serbian band), a Serbian band established in 1999
• The Negatives, a band fronted by Lloyd Cole
• Negative (Yōsui Inoue album), 1987
• Negative (Negative album), 1999
• Negatives (album), a 2004 album by Phantom Planet
• The Negatives, a 2014 album by Cruel Hand
• Negative (song), a 1998 song by Mansun
• Negative (album) by Act Of Denial

Other uses

• Negatives (film), a 1968 film
• 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
• Negative liberty is freedom from interference by other people
• Negative repetition, the performance of the eccentric phase of weight lifting
• Negative sign, the passive or feminine signs of the zodiac in astrology
• Negative space, in art, the space around or between elements of the subject
• Negative, several distinct concepts within the game of contract bridge, including:
  • Double negative, see Glossary of contract bridge terms § doublenegative
  • Herbert negative, see see Glossary of contract bridge terms § doublenegative
  • Negative double
  • Negative free bid
  • Negative inference, see see Glossary of contract bridge terms § doublenegative
  • Negative response, see see Glossary of contract bridge terms § doublenegative
• Photo negative casting, a casting technique in acting by reversing the skin colours of actor and character.
• Boys Name Cameron

See also

• Mu (negative)
• Negation (disambiguation)
• Negativity (disambiguation)
• Positive (disambiguation)
• Double Negative (disambiguation)