Meaning

Partially positive in attitude etc..

Definitions by Sense

1. Partially positive in attitude etc.
2. (mathematics) Having a dual that is nonnegative.
3. (mathematics) Having all elements nonnegative where at least one is positive.
4. (materials engineering) 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.

Example Sentences

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.

Chief Seathl looked to the future in a semipositive way, saying, "We aren't going to forget who we are. . ."

Basques in Sydney, Melbourne, and North Queensland tend to feel that they have been socially accepted with a semipositive status because of their excellent work reputations with non-Basque employers.

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.

For such products, a semipositive mold is designed (Fig. 1.1.14), with the flash at a right angle to the direction of pressure.

The semipositive, vertical-flash type mold, shown in Fig. 13-2, requires double fitting of force to cavity and is costly.

Semipositive molds are more expensive to manufacture and maintain than the other types, but they are much better from an applications point of view.

Word Forms

• semi-positive

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Use semipositive when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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